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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC
3 1833 01431 5706
The Sewells
of the Isle of lVight_
With an Account of some of
the Families connected with
them by Marriage
BY
MOUNTAGUE CHARLES OWEN
Pkinted for Private Circulation , ^ t
7 9 7 9 9 1 15
Manchester Courier Ltd., Printers,
24, Cannon Street.
This little history of my mothers family
is dedicated to her.
CONTENTS.
Pagt.
PRElfACB xi.
Introduction xiii.
PART I.
Chaptrr I. Thomas Sewell, of Cumrew, and his Son, the
Rev. William Sewell, Rector of Headley - 3
Chapter II. Thomas Sewell, of Newport, Isle of Wight,
and Family 9
Chapter III. Henry Sewell, of Wellington, New Zealand,
and Family 40
Chapter IV. The Owen Branch 45
Chapter V. The Rev. William Sewell, Rector of Little
Sampford, and Family 56
Chapter VI. Henry Sewell, of the Indian Civil Service, and
Family 58
Chapter VII, Robert Burleigh Sewell and Family - - - 61
Chapter VIII. The Rev. Arthur Sewell and Family - - 66
Chapter IX. The Hawtrey Branch 69
Chapter X. The Hanbury Branch 72
Chapter XI. The Descendants of Jacob Sewell, of Carlatton,
Cumberland 75
Chapter XII The Sewells, of Steephill Castle - • - 79
PART II.
The Burleigh Family 83
The Clarke Family 89
The Edwards Family 96
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CONTENTS— Contmued.
PART ll.— Contumed.
The Nedham Family 09
The Kittoe Family jj2
The Vaughan Family jj.
The Seymour Family jj^
The Owen Family j2o
The Hanbury Family - - - 12^
The Baker Family 129
Monumental Inscriptions 136
List of Sewell Wills preserved at Carlisle 142
Willof Thomas Sewell, of Cum rew 146
WillofRobert Clarke, Sen., of Newport 148
PART III.
Notes on the name Sewell 15^
The Arms borne by the Family of Sewell 164
The Sewells of Surrey 166
The Sewells of Bedfordshire 173
Pedigree i^S
Index i^g
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
ASHCLIFF, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight - - Frontispiece.
{From a Photograph taken October, igoj.]
To /act pagt
Thomas Sewell, of Newport 9
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.'\
Mrs. Thomas Sewell lo
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.'\
Richard Clarke Sewell, D.C.L. Painted c. 1840 - 12
{From an O'l-painting at Ashcliff.']
The Rev. William .Sewell, D.D. Painted by Julian
Drummond 16
{From the Oil-painting now at St. Peter's College, Radley.}
The Rev. James Edwards Sewell, D.D., Warden of New
College, Miss Ellen Mary Sewell, and Miss
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ----- 28
{From a Photograph taken in igoi by Mr. J. E. Briddon, of Ventnor.'\
Henry Sewell, Prime Minister of New Zealand - - 40
{From a Photograph. "l
Colonel James Burleigh 87
{From a Pencil Sketch at Ashcliff.']
One of the Clarkes. Temp. Charles II, - - - 90
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.']
Robert Clarke, of Newport 92
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.]
Richard Clarke 94
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.]
James Edwards 98
{From an Oil-painting at Ashcliff.]
The Arms of the Sewells of the Isle of Wight - 164
ERRATA.
Page 17, line 17. For " novels," read "tales."
Page 27, line 28. For " sen," read "seu."
Page 28, line 9. For " Furningford," read " Farringford."
Page 44, line 1 1. For " Latham," read " Letham."
Page 48, line 6. For " Duplex," read " Dupleix."
Page 49, line 23. For "nictrices," read "victrices."
Page 53, line 29. For "Rev. A. G. Clarke," read "Rev.
A. E. Clarke."
Page 59, line 2. For " Warmington," read "Warrington."
Page 59, line 11. For " Warrambool," read " Warnambool."
Page 60, line 14. For " Hellen," read " Helen."
Page 126, line 18. For "Isabel," read " Isobel."
Page 175, line 2. Omit the words "tres and."
Page 175, line 12. This line should read as follows: —
"Stafford, Monstrez le tierce jour de Juyll."
Page 178. In the pedigree for "Hellen Edith," read
"Helen Edith."
The portrait of Dr. William Sewell was painted by Julian
Drummond in 1859.
PREFACE.
This family memoir is composed of three parts.
Part I. contains an account of the descendants of
Thomas Sewell, of Cum Rew, Cumberland, our earliest
ascertained ancestor.
Part II. consists of pedigrees of faynilies connected by
marriage ivith the Sewells of the Isle of Wight.
Part III. consists of an account of the arms borne by
various branches of the Seivel I family. Some notes on the
early mention of the name Sewell and on some people of
distinction who have borne that navie, besides some notes on
the Bedfordshire Sewells and a pedigree of the family of
Sewell^ settled in Surrey, who originally spring from
Cumberland, but with whom I have been unable to connect
our particular branch of the family.
It would be impossible here to name all those who have
helped me by answering the many questions I have put to
them. 1 am particularly indebted to my aunt, Miss
Eleanor Sewell, for allowing me to have the family
portraits at A shcliff photographed. To my cousin. Miss
Nedham of Bath, for the loan of papers and pedigrees
compiled by her father, the late Major-Gen. William
Nedham, R.A.; and to Mr. Harold P. T. Baker, M.R.C.S.,
for his valuable pedigree of the Baker family.
hi conclusion, may I ask my readers to point out any
errors and omissions they may notice, so that I may correct
them in a future edition.
MOUNTAGUE C. OWEN.
Manchester.
INTRODUCTION.
In 1898 I published in the "Genealogical Magazine"
(Volume II., page 145), a pedigree of the Sewells of the Isle of
Wight. Since then I have paid two visits to the Island, and have
added much to what I had previously collected about the history
of my mother's family. These collections I am now printing,
partly because I hope they may be of interest to members of the
family, and partly because I want to put into permanent form
information which has cost some time and trouble to acquire and
which has been derived, in many instances, from those who are
no longer with us to tell us what manner of men our forbears
were.
To my account of the Sewells I have added pedigrees of
some of the families with whom they are connected by
marriage. The Burleigh, Clarke, Edwards, Kittoe, Seymour,
Hanbury, and Baker pedigrees have never been in print before. A
pedigree of the Vaughans will be found in Jones' " History of the
County of Brecknock," published in 1809, so that I have here
merely printed the few descents which are necessary to connect
my aunt, widow of the Rev. William Sewell, with Jones' pedigree.
The Fenwicks and Hawtreys I have omitted altogether ; a pedigree
of the former family will be found in the later editions of Burke's
" Landed Gentry," and of the latter in the late Miss Florence
Hawtrey's "History of the Hawtrey Family," published in 1903.
The Nedham pedigree given here, although- abbreviated
ones, will be found in Burke's "Landed Gentry," editions 1849
and 1852, and in some "Peerages," has never been printed in
full before.
The Owen pedigree was compiled some years ago by my
uncle, General Owen, and printed in his " Descendants of the
Elder Branch of the Cunliffes of WycoUer. But as this was never
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published, and is therefore not easy to be obtained, I have, with
his permission, reprinted that part of the pedigree which relates to
the immediate ancestry of my father.
It would be impossible to give a complete list of all the
sources which I have tapped, some successfully and some not, in
order to throw light upon the history of our ancestors. But below
I will indicate the principal ones : —
(i) Information derived from members of the family.
(2) Parish Registers and Monumental Inscriptions.
(3) Memoranda in Family Bibles at Ashcliff, Bonchurch, and
in the possession of Mr. Henry Sewell, late of Steephill
Castle, Ventnor, and of Mr. Jacob Sewell, of Carlisle.
(4) Wills at Carlisle, Winchester, and Canterbury.
(5) The MS. Journal kept by my grandfather, Henry
Sewell, whilst in New Zealand.
(6) MS. " Recollections " of my great-uncle, William Sewell.
(7) Autobiography of Elizabeth M, Sewell, of Ashcliff,
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. Printed for Private
Circulation, 1893.
(8) Extracts from a Private Journal kept from 1845 to 1891.
By Elizabeth M, Sewell. Printed for Private Circula-
tion, 1891.
(9) Joseph Foster's " Alumni Oxonienses."
(10) Articles on the Sewells in the " Dictionary of National
Biography."
(11) Fifty years of St. Peter's College, Radley. By the
Rev. T. D. Raikes, M.A., and other old Radleians,
1897.
(12) -'In Memoriam, Ellen Mary Sewell, 1813-1905." Re-
printed from the " Isle of Wight Advertiser." Written
by Miss Harriet Harvey.
(13) Obituary notices published at the time of the death of my
great-uncle, the late Warden of New College, in various
newspapers,
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I have also made use of the various works mentioned in the
three articles on Richard Clarke Sewell, William Sewell, and
Henry Sewell in the " Dictionary of National Biography,"
With regard to the pedigrees of the families related to the
Sewells by marriage. The Burleigh, Clarke, and Edwards
pedigrees are compiled, almost entirely, from parish registers and
monumental inscriptions, with the additional aid of *' Foster's
" Alumni Oxonienses," which throws much light upon the history
of the Burleighs and Edwards'.
The Nedham pedigree is compiled mainly from a MS. one
which was made by Major-General William Nedham. This has
been collated with those in the various peerages, in the earlier
editions of Burke's " Landed Gentry," in Ormerod's "History of
Cheshire," and Earwaker's "History of Sandbach." Many
additional dates have been supplied from obituary notices in the
*' Gentleman's Magazine."
What information I have been able to gather about the
Kittoes was supplied by the late Rev. Edward H. Kittoe, Vicar
of Boldmere.
The Seymour pedigree is compiled from monumental
inscriptions at Wraxall and from information given me by the
hte Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour, Rector of Nettlecombe.
The small portion of the Vaughan pedigree printed here was
given me by my late uncle, the Rev. William Sewell, Rector of
Little Sampford.
The Owen pedigree, as stated above, was compiled by my
uncle, General Owen. That of the Hanbury family by Mr, James
A. S. Hanbury, and that of the Bakers, by Mr, Harold R. P.
Baker, M.R.C.S.
The pedigree of Sir Thomas Sewell's family is compiled
mainly from some correspondence which took place in "Notes
and Queries" in 1853 ; from two wills published in "Miscellanea
Genealogica et Heraldica," New Series, Vol. I., page 183 ; from
Burke's " Visitation of Seats and Arms " ; from obituary notices
in the " Gentleman's Magazine," and from information given me
by the late Mr. J. A. Shaw Stewart.
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The notes on the Bedfordshire Sewells were kindly given to
me by Mr. F. G. Gurney, of Wanstead, Essex.
There are to be found in print the following pedigrees of
families of the name of Sewell : —
(i) The Sewells of Essex. Morant's " Essex," Vol. II., page
273 ; and Wright's " Essex," Vol. I., page 486.
(2) The Sewells of Surrey. To which family belonged Sir
Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls. Burke's "Visita-
tion of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of Great Britain," Vol. I.
(3) The Sewells of America. Professor Salisbury's " Family
Memorials." Privately printed, in 1885, in America.
{4) The Sewells of the Isle of Wight. " The Genealogical
Magazine, Vol. II., page 145.
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PART I.
CHAPTER I.
Ubomas Sewell, ot Cumrcw, anC) bis Son, tbe
1Rev>. Milliam Sewell, IRector of IfDeaMe^.
The earliest mention of the name Sewell which I have
come across in Cumberland is in 1549, when Hugh Sewell
became Eector of Caldbeck, Yicar of St. Lawrence,
Appleby, and Prebendary of the first stall at Carlisle*
But towards the middle of the sixteenth century the name
had become common in the county, for before the end of
the century forty Sewell wills had been proved at Carlisle.
Despite the large number of Sewell wills proved at
Carlisle, I have not been able to trace our branch definitely
back beyond Thomas Sewell, who was buried at Cumrew,
10th August, 1782, aged 87. Thomas would, therefore,
have been born in 1695, and as there is an entry in the
register books of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle, of the baptism
of a Thomas Sewell, the son of Thomas Sewell, of Bleck-
well, on 6th October, 1695, it is probable that this may
have been the father of our Thomas.
Of Thomas, of Cumrew, we know nothing beyond the
fact that he was a yeoman, living first at " Bown Wood,"
now spelt " Boon Wood," in the parish of Gosforth, and
afterwards at Carlatton, a hamlet which was, and still is,
extra-parochial, but the nearest church to which would be
Cumrew.
Thomas Sewell's will was proved at Carlisle the 14th of
September, 1782, and from this we find that William, his
•Nicholson and Burns* "History of Westmoreland and Cumber-
land," 1777, Vol. II., Pag© 308.
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elder and only surviving son, was entirely disinherited,
everything being left to the descendants of his younger
son, Jacob.
Thomas Sewell's wife, Elizabeth, had predeceased him,
having been buried at Cumrew, July the 31st, 1768. By
her he had two sons and a daughter. William, the eldest
son, was baptised at Cumrew the 15th of June, 1721. He
matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, as Batler, 31st
January, 1738, and proceeded B.A. in 1742, and M.A. 27th
February, 1740. He was appointed Fellow of his College
in 1753, and he also seems to have held the office of
Chaplain ; which he resigned in 1755. The same year he
became Curate of Godshill, in the Isle of Wight, which
curacy he held till 1763. In 1765 he was presented by his
College to the Rectory of Headley, Hants., which he held
until his death, the 18th of October*, 1800, aged 80. He
was buried at Headley, October 24th. In the church,
under the tower, is an inscription placed to his memory,
and also to the memory of his wife and three of their
children, John, William, and Barnabas.
William Sewell, of Headley, was a Hebrew and mathe-
matical scholar, but a man with very little knowledge of
the world. In fact, he seems to have lived on at Queen's
College as men did in those days, waiting for a good
College living, until they were wholly unfit for it.
Some characteristic anecdotes are told of William.
Sewell in the Journals of my great-uncle and great-aunt,
William Sewell of Eadley^ and Elizabeth Sewell, of
Bonchurch. " There was a time when he, William Sewell
of Headley, kept a carriage, probably soon after his
marriage, and I heard of his going out to dinner in it.
But the horses, which in the morning had been engaged
with the plough, were sadly disinclined to drag the heavy
unwieldy vehicle through the ruts and mire of the North
Hants lanes, and they came to a standsHU. The coach-
• The date of his death ig given incorrectly in Foster's " AlumnL
Oxonienses " as September 17th.
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man's whip was useless, till my grandfather got out of
the carriage, took his penknife, and applied it in such a
determined way to the animals' flanks, that they started
off with my grandmother, leaving himself behind in the
mud."
" My granidfather was a County Magistrate, but he
allowed my aunts to relieve him in the duty of signing
papers and other official acts of the hand when he was
himself immersed in his Hebrew. ' Sir,' said my aunt
one Sunday to him, ' the bells are going for church ; had
you not better get ready ? ' ' Wait a minute, Fanny,
wait a minute.' Fanny waited a minute. Five minutes
passed, and my aunt reneAved her warning. ' Wait a
minute, Fanny; wait; do not interrupt me again.' He
was warned, and again refused to move. ' But, sir, the
people are all in church.' ' Let them wait, Fanny ; let
them wait.' And they did wait, till their patience was
exhausted, and when at last he went, he met them at the
door coming out."
" One of his servants, named Francis, was commonly
reported to smuggle, not an unusual offence in the Southern
Counties in those days. A complaint was made on the
subject by the old Rector's daughter, Fanny (afterwards
Mrs. Hanbuiy). ' I hear, sir, that Francis smuggles. It
is very wrong.' ' Yes, Fanny, certainly, it is very wrong.'
' And he ought to be sent away.' ' Yes, Fanny, certainly.'
* Shall I send him to you, sir ? Will you speak to him ? '
* Yes, Fanny ; let me see him.' And accordingly Francis
appeared in the study, and my grandfather addressed him :
' Francis, I hear that you smuggle.' ' Oh, no, sir.' ' It
would be very wrong, Francis.' ' No doubt, sir ; very
wrong.' ' And I can't believe you would do it, Francis.'
' Oh, no, sir, it is quite false to say I do.' ' I thought so,
Francis; I was sure you would not smuggle.' ' Certainly
not, sir; on no account.' Francis departed, and my aunt
re-appeared in the study. ' I have spoken to Francis,' said
my grandfather. ' I am glad of it, sir. What excuse did
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he make ? ' ' It is all false, Fanny ; Ke does not smuggle ;
lie says so.' Further evidence was not required, and
Francis remained, and doubtless continued his smu^^lin^
habits. On one occasion the singing before the sermon,
with its twists and flourishes, was indulged in rather beyond
ordinary endurance. The old Rector suddenly left the
pulpit, went up into the gallery, seized one of the singers,
and, shaking him, demanded how long he meant to go on."
The village of lleadley adjoins that of Selbome.
Gilbert White and William Sewell were friends, and a
letter of William Sewell to the historian of Selborne is
])rinted in the " Life and Letters of Gilbert White of
Selborne."*
The Hector of Headley is thus referred to in Mrs. Evans'
" Letters of Radclifie and James " : — " Dec. 27, 17G5 : Our
very best living was vacant in summer by the death of the
immortal Holmes ; and has fallen to the share of the very
oddest Fellow belonging to us. You will know that I mean
Dr. Sewell."! ^.
Headley was aValuable living in those days, being worth
£776 a year and a house. William Sewell married, at St.
Thomas's Church, Newport, Isle of Wight, 25th November,
176G, Frances, second daughter of Robert Clarke, Solicitor,
of Newport. Mrs. Sewell (Frances Clarke) was born 10th
June, 1740, and baptised at St. Thomas's Church, New-
port, on July 21th following. All that I know of Mrs.
William Sewell is that she died a martyr to rheumatic
gout. William Sewell, of Radley, relates that his great-
aunt, Hanbury (Frances Sewell), often told him that she
had to watch by her mother at night without sleeping so
* The letter is upon the subject of a find of Roman coins. It is
dated Headley, 7th August, 1777. " Life and Letters of Gilbert White
of Selborne. Written and edited by his great-grand-nephew, Rasleigh
Holt-White." Vol. II., pp. 12 to 14.
t " Letters of Ra-dcliffe and James." Edited by Margaret Evans,
Oxford Historical Society. The Rector of Headley never took hia
doctor's degree. The Rev. George Holme, D.D. (not Holmes), vi^as
born in 1705. He married Catherine, daughter of John Leigh, Esq.,
of North Coast, Isle of Wight. She died 3rd June, 1760, and there
is a memorial to her memory close to the Sewell one at Headley.
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long, that at last she herself lost the power of sleep, and
was obliged to have her eyelids closed by others by force.
She bore her suffering with great patience, and after the
death of her husband, her son, Thomas Sewell, of New-
port, took a house for her at Farnham, in Surrey, where she
died, 4th April, 1803, and was buried at Headley the 11th
of April following.
- William Sewell, of Headley, had seven children: — (1)
Elizabeth. Born 25th June, 1768. Baptised at All Saints,
Headley, 29th June following. She died unmarried, 26th
September, 1811, and was buried at Carisbrooke on
October 2nd.
. (2) Lydia. Born 22nd November, 1769. Baptised at
Headley, 30th November folio sving. After her mother's
death she lived with her aunt, Lydia Clarke, at Newport.
She died, unmarried, in John Street, Bedford Row, London,
6th February, 1837, and was buried at Carisbrooke on the
13th of February following.
• (3) William. Born 11th April, 1771. Baptised at
Heedley, 14th April following. He was sent into a
mercantile house abroad, and died of yellow fever in the
Island of Martir^^^ue, in the West Indies, in the year 1794.
(4) Frances. Born 7th May, 1773. Baptised at
Headley, 16th May following. She married, about 1811,
Samuel Hanbury, of the London Stock Exchange. She
died in 1865, and was buried at Nunhead.
. (5) Thomas. Bom 20th June, 1775. Baptised at
Headley, 23rd of June following. He married, 29th
March, 1802, Jane, youngest daughter of the Rev. John
Edwards, Curate of Newport.
(6) Barnabas. Born 20th June, 1779. Baptised at
Headley, 27th June following. He was a Surgeon in the
service of the Honourable the East India Company, and
died, of fever, in the East Indies in the year 1805,
(7) John. Born 23rd April, 1781, and was baptised the
same day, at Headley. He died May 17th, 1782, and was
buried at Headley, the 20th May following.
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Thomas Sewell, of Cumrew, had two other children,
besides the Rector of Headley : Jacob, baptised at Cumrew,
25th March, 1723. He was buried at Cumrew, 4th May,
1765; and Anne, baptised at Cumrew, 25th March, 1723.
She was buried at Cumrew, 19th October, 1725.
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THOIVIAS SKWI-LI,, CH- XI-:\V1'()RT,
JVwto., /. E. Hriddoii, \\nluor.\
CHAPTER II.
Xlbomas Sewell, ot IRewport, 5sle of MiQbt,
anb 3famili\
Thomas Sewell, second son of the Rev. William Sewell,
Rector of Headley, was born 20th June, 1775, and baptised
at Headley 23rd June following. Thomas became a
Solicitor, and entered into partnership with his uncle,
"William Clarke, of Newport, and he lived for the rest of
his life in Newport, practising- as a Solicitor. He was
Mayor of the Borough in 1838, and again in 1840, and he
had previously held the position of Recorder, before the
passing of the Municipal Bill. He, in addition, held the
offices of Steward and Deputy-Governor of the Isle of
Wight and Deputy-Sheriff.
Upon their marriage, Thomas Sewell and his wife lived
at Shrewsbury House, Crocker Street, but they removed
before 1815 to a larger house, in High Street. This house
is still standj^jg in the High Street, Newport, and was
occupied until his death by Mr. Harbottle Estcourt,
Deputy-Governor of the Isle of Wight, and senior partner
in the firm of Harbottle Estcourt and Co., Solicitors, New-
port, successors to the firm of Clarke and Sewell.*
Mr. Sewell was Agent to Lord Yarborough, and altogether
had a large business, but his family waa also large, and his
expenses consequently high. About the year 1840 he lost
a considerable amount of money, over £3,000, through the
* Mr. Harbottle Estcourt told me that the succession of partners
in the firm was as fellows :— Clarke and Sewell; Clarke, Sewell and
Hearn; Sewell and Heam; Sewell, Heam and Sewell; 1834, Sewells;
1842, H. and R. B. Sewell; 1845, Sewells, Norris and Estcourt; 1850,
R. B. Sewell and Eetcourt; 1851, R. B. Sewell, Estcourt and Wake.
Mr. Henry Sewell joined his father and Mr. Hearn about 1826, and
Mr. Hearn retired from the firm in 1833, when Mr. Robert Burleigh
Sewell came in. Mr. Henry Sewell retired in 1850. The firm is now
(1905) carried on by Messrs. Gunner and Wilson.
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failure of a bank in Newport. He had long suffered from
suppressed gout, and tliis, combined witk worry, terminated
his life. He died whilst staying in lodgings in
St. Giles Street, Oxford, 25th June, 1842, and was buried
in the old cemetery at Newport, where there is a monument
to his memory, and to the memory of his wife and to three
of his children — Ann Margaret, John George, and Thomas.
There is also a stained-glass window in St. Thomas's Church
at Newport, put up to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Sewell.
Thomas Sewell would, I believe, have married earlier,
but after his father's death he had to support his mother;
for, although Headley was a valuable living, the old Rector
seems to have left his widow and daughters entirely un-
provided for. However, on March the 29th, 1802, Thomas
Sewell married, at St. Thomas's Church, Newport, Jane,
youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Edwards, M.A.,
Curate of Newport. The wedding was performed by Mr.
Geary, the then Curale, Newport being merely a district
church of Carisbrooke. The register is signed by Elizabeth
Sewell and Robert Clarke. Mrs. Thomas Sewell (Jane
Edwards) was born at Newport, 9th of December, 1773,
and was baptised at St. Thomas's Church the same day.
After her iiusband's death she went to live with her son,
Henry, at Pidford, and upon his leaving Pidford, in 1844,
she took up her residence' with her daughters at Ashcliflt,
Bonchurch, where she died, of an affection of the heart,
May the 20th, 1848. She was buried at the old cemetery,
Newport, on the 27th of May following.
Thomas Sewell and his wife had twelve children. Two
of them died young, one died at the age of twenty. Richard
Clarke was slightly over sixty at his death, Robert Burleigh
was sixty-three, William and Jeanetta were both just over
seventy, Emma was seventy-nine, Ellen and James
Edwards ninety-two and ninety-three respectively,
Elizabeth Missing, born in the year of "Waterloo, is still
living. Children of Thomas Sewell and Jane his wife: —
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Photo., /. E. HiidJoii, I 'ill/ nor.]
(1) Richard Clarke Seweli. Was born the 6th of
February, 1803, and baptised the same day at Newport.
He was named after his great-uncle, Richard Clarke. In
1818 he went to "Winchester College as a scholar. He
matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, 2Gth July,
1821. He was a demy from 1821 to 1837. He took a
Second Class in Literis Humanioribus in Easter Term,
1826. He proceeded B.A. 1st June, 1826; M.A. 19th
February, 1829 ; and D.C.L. 12th November, 1840. He
was a Fellow (Diocese of Winchester) of his College from
1837 to 1856, when he resigned. He was elected Senior
Dean of Arts in 1838, Bursar in 1840, and Praelector of
Natural Philosophy in 1842. In 1843 he was chosen Vice-
President, but he resigned the same year, November 2nd.
He was awarded the Newdigate Prize in 1825 for an
English poem on " The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli." On
25th of June, 1830, Seweli was called to the Bar by the
Society of the Middle Temple. He Avas Advocate of
Doctors' Commons, became known as a special pleader, and
took business on the Western Circuit and at the Hampshire
Sessions.
In 1856 Seweli resigned his Fellowship and went to
Australia, where he practised in the criminal law courts,
and was in 1857 appointed Reader on Law to the University
of Melbourne. He died at Melbourne, Victoria, the 9th of
November, 1864, and is buried there.
Seweli published the following works : —
(i.) ''The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli;" an Oxford
University English Newdigate Prize Poem gained in
1825.
(ii.) " A Letter to his Grace Arthur Duke of Welling-
ton, by a Friend to the Constitution of 1688." Oxford :
H. Cooke, pp. 15. 1829.
(iii.) " Collectanea Parliamentaria, or an Historical
Inquiry into the Constitution of the British Parliament
as Connected with the Proposed Reform." London:
J. and W. T. Clarke. 1831. pp. 60.
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(iv.) " A Digest of the New Statutes and Rules, with
the Cases Decided at Banc and at Nisi Prius." 1835.
(v.) " The Municipal Corporation Acts, 5 and 6
Will. IV., 0. 76, with Legal and Explanatory Notes;
also Both the Orders in Council, an Analytical Abstract
of the Act, and an Index." London, 1835.
(vi.) " Vindicise Ecclesiasticae ; or a Legal and His-
torical Argument Against the Abolition of the Bishops'
Courts in Cases of Correction of Clerks, as Proposed by
the " Church Discipline Act." Oxford : Henry Slatter.
1839. pp. 127.
(vii.) " A Treatise of the Law of Sheriff, with Practical
Forms and Precedents." London. 1842.
(viii.) "A Treatise on the Law of Coroner; with
Copious Precedents of Inquisitions and Practical Forms
of Proceedings." London. 1843.
(ix.) " A Manual of the Law and Practice of Eegistra-
tion of Voters in England and Wales." 1835. 2nd
Edition, 1844.
(x.) " A Letter to the Members of the Venerable House
of Convocation in the University of Oxford." [On the
subject of the proceedings against W. G, Ward.] Lon-
don: Owen Richards. 1845. pp. 55.
(xi.) " Gesta Stephani, Regis Anglorum et Duels
Normanorum, incerto acutore, sed contemporaneo, olim,
ex vetere codice M.S. Episcipatus. Londunensis ab
Andrea Duchesne Edita, Denno Recensuit, notisque
illustravit, Richardus Clarke Sewell." English Historical
Society. 1846. pp. XV., v. 139.
(xii.) " Sacro-politica; the Rights and Relations,
Civil and Spiritual, of the Anglican Church, examined
with, and tested by, the Laws of England, and the
Principles of the British Constitution." London:
George Bell. 1848. pp. 91.
(xiii.) "Legal Education: an Inaugural Lecture."
Melbourne. 1857.
(xiv.) " The Speech of R. C. Sewell in Defence of G.
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RICHARD CLARKl' SEWI-LL, D.C.I..
Photo.,/. E. BiUJoii, i\)il„or.\
Chamberlain and W. Armstrong, Ch.ar|?e(i with Intent
to Murder W. Green." Melbourne. 1859.
Sewell contributed to the "Field" the "Papers of a
Hampshire Fisherman," and during the years 1845 and
1846 wrote constantly for " The Surplice," a journal of
ecclesiastical affairs. Many of the leading articles* are
by him, and also a series of articles upon Saint Thomas a
Becket.
Richard Sewell was a versatile and rapid writer — his
" Newdigate " is said to have been written in a single
night. He was the handsomest of a handsome family, but
he lacked that almost excessive refinement which helped
to make his younger brothers so attractive ; in fact, he
had in him many of the qualities of a Bohemian.
(2) William Sewell, second son of Thomas Sewell, of
Newport, was born there the 23rd of January, 1804. He
was educated at Winchester College, as a Commoner, under
Dr. Gabell. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford,
4th November, 1822. He was a postmaster from
1822 to 1827. He was elected Fellow of Exeter
College, on the Petrean Foundation, 30th June, and
admitted 2nd J uly, 1827, in the place of the Rev. Edward
Eliot. He was Tutor 1831—53, Librarian 1833, Sub-
Rector 1835, Divinity Reader 1835, and Dean 1839. He
held his Fellowship until his death in 1874. He proceeded
* The following articles are by Sewell: — Leading articles on pages
53, 81, 127, US, 157, 173, 189, 205, 221, 237, 253, 269, 301, 317, 333, 339, 365,
362, 399, 429, 445, 477, 493, 509, 524, 542, 560, 576, 593, 609, 625, 641, 657,
674, 692, 703, 725. " Reform of the Ecclesiastical Court," page 12.
" The Stone Altar Case," pages 61, 89, 105, 121. " Notes by a Layman,"
pages 96, 132, 137, 152. " Thomas a Becket," pages 162, 177, 192, 209,
Z2S, 240, 254, 273, 289, 302, 313, 345, 346, 360, 377, 391, 403, 424, 440, 456,
472, 488, 536, 556, 572, 588, 604, 620. "A Dialogue between the Pope
and a Phanatic concerning Affairs in England," London, 1680, page
652. " Florilegium Ecclesiastico-Historicum." " Sketches of tJie
Councils." " Council of Nicea," page 708. There are also some poems
by Sewell in " The Surplice," mostly translations into Latin and
Greek, the following axe by him:— Page 92, "An Epitaph in Greek
and English." Page 106, " Translation of an Epitaph in Brading
Churchyard into Greek." Page 122, "Translations into Latin of
Epitaphs on 'The Countess of Warwick,' 'Elizabeth L. H.,' and on
' Sir Thomas Palmer.' " Page 460, " Providence," translation into
Latin. Page 639, "The Salutation," suggested by a picture of P.
Bouterwek. Page 647, "A Vision of Life."
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B.A. 2nd June, 1827; M.A. 2nd July, 1829; B.D. 17th
June, 1841 ; and D.D. 20th May, 1857. He took a First
Class in Literis Humanioribus in 1827. He gained the
Chancellor's English Essay Prize in 1828, and the Latin
Essay in 1829. He was Public Examiner in Literis
Humanioribus at Oxford in 1832—1833. In 1831 he took
Holy Orders, being ordained Deacon by the Bishop of
Bristol, and in 1832 he was ordained Priest by the Bishop
of Winchester. For a year after his ordination he held
the Curacy of Whippingham, in the Isle of Wight, and on
the 10th of July, 1831, the Governor of Carisbrooke
presented him with the Perpetual Curacy of St. Nicholas-
in-the-Castle, a sinecure worth £20 a year, which he held
until his death. He held Whyte's Professorship of Moral
Philosophy at Oxford from 1836 to 1841. The substance of
his lectures was afterwards embodied in the two volumes,
which he published, called " Christian Morals " and
"Christian Politics." He was Whitehall Preacher in
1849—50, and Select Preacher to the University of Oxford
in 1852.
A rather amusing account of the Moral Philosophy Club,
which Scwell established at Oxford, will be found in " Tom
Mozley's Reminiscences of Oxford."* Sewell was the first
man to suggest the extension of University teaching to the
great towns. His views were put forth in a pamphlet
published by him in 1850, entitled " Suggestions for the
Extension of the University; Submitted to the Rev. the
Vice-Chancellor, by William Sewell, B.D."
An incident in Sewell's life was described in a letter to
the " Daily News," May 2nd, 1892. On the appearance
of J. A. Fronde's " Nemesis of Faith," in 1849, Sewell,
after reading it, declaimed to the class next morning on
the wickedness of the book; and when one of his pupils,
Arthur Bloomfield (afterwards Rector of Beverston,
Gloucestershire), admitted, in reply to Sewell's inquiry,
* " Reminiacencee chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Move-
ment," by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London, 1882. Vol. II., page 23.
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noteworthy of all being a beautiful fifteenth century
reredos, which he picked up in Amsterdam. Then there
was some beautiful old silver, including two Bishop's
croziers, of Spanish workmanship; one of them is now in
the possession of the Bishop of Oxford. But all this cost
money, the finances of Radley became more and more
unsound. Mr. Hubbard, afterwards the first Lord Addmg-
ton, had made large advances to the College ; in 1861 he
became alarmed at the position of things, and insisted on
Sewell resigning the Wardenship. An assignment of the
College and all its property was made over to Mr. Hubbard,
who made himself responsible for the whole debt. As Mr.
Eaikes says in his " Fifty Years of St. Peter's College,
Radley," " Sewell's error lay in over-confidence; for that
error he paid dearly."
Sewell's resignation of the Wardenship of Eadley took
place in March, 1861. Early next year he went abroad,
and there remained, residing for the most part at the Hotel
Belle Vue, at Deutz, in Germany, until the outbreak of the
Franco-German war in 1870, which compelled him to
return to England. ])uring this time he employed him-
self in examining critically the Greek of the New Testa-
ment.
The last years of his life were spent almost entirely with
his own family at Bonchurch. In 1873 he went to stay
with his nephew, the Rev. Arthur Sewell, at Litchford
Hall, Blackley, near Manchester, where he died about one
in the morning, on Saturday, November 14th, 1874. He
had been about thirteen months at Litchford Hall during
all which time he had been an invalid, and seldom able to
go out. He was buried in the south-west corner of the
churchyard of St. Andrew's, Higher Blackley, on November
18th, 1874. The service was performed by James Eraser,
second Bishop of Manchester, an old friend of Dr. Sewell.
At the time of his death Sewell was Senior Fellow of Exeter
College.
In the earlier stages of the Tractarian Movement Sewell
[16]
was regarded as the firm friend of the tract writers, but
latterly they went too far for him, and he withdrew from
the party. He was what we should call to-day an old-
fashioned High Churchman. He was an eloquent preacher ;
as Whitehall Preacher in London and as Select Preacher
in Oxford he drew large crowds. His lectures on Plato
filled Exeter Hall at Oxford. He was certainly the most
notable Fellow of a College in the forties and early fifties,
and was no less a success as a teacher whilst he held the
Wardenship of Eadley. As a writer he was, perhaps, too
prolific; he rushed too easily into print, and whatever
subject of the day stirred the academic world, Sewell had
always something to say about it, which he immediately
printed in the form of a pamphlet. Nevertheless, there is
much in his sermons which is well worth reading even
to-day. His translations of the classics are scholarly, and
the four novels that he wrote exciting, especially " Hawk-
stone." William Sewell will be known in the future not
so much by his writings, as that he has done, what has been
given to few men to do, namely, to found two Colleges,
which are doing, and will continue to do, good work for the
Church of Christ.
The following is a list of William Sewell's published
works : —
(i.) " The Domestic Virtues and Manners of the Greeks
and Romans, Compared with those of the Most Eefined
States of Europe." " Manners Makyth Man," the
Oxford University Chancellor's English Prize Essay.
1828. pp. 98. (Republished in the Oxford English
Prize Essays, i)p. 185 to 238 of Vol. II. Oxford : D. A.
Talboys. 1830.)
(ii.) " Quibus potissimum Rationibus Gentes a
Romania debellata ita officerentur, ut cum Victoribus in
unius Imperi Corpus coaluerint ? " An Oxford Uni-
versity Chancellor's Latin Prize Essay. 1829.
(iii.) " A Circular Letter of Advice and Justification
from the Committee for Ensuring the Election of Sir
c [ 17 ]
Robert In^lis." Addressed to the Members of the
University of Oxford who signed the Requisition against
Mr. Peel. " Invimns ferro." — Yirgil. Oxford: W.
Baxter. 1829. pp. 44. (Published anonymously.)*
(iv.) " Hora Philologica, or Congectures on the
Structure of the Greek Language." Oxford: D. A.
Talboys. 1830. j>x>. 137.
(v.) " An Essay on the Cultivation of the Intellect by
the Study of Dead Languages." London: John Bohn.
1830. pp. 371.
(vi.) " Sermons on the Application of Christianity to
the Human Heart." London: C. J. G. Rivington; J.
Bohn ; and H. G. Bohn. Oxford : D. A. Talboys. 1831.
pp. viii. and 444.
(vii.) " A Clergyman's Recreations : or Sacred
Thoughts in Verse." London : J. Bohn and H. G. Bohn.
1831. pp. 324. (This, the first edition, was published
anonymously.) Second edition, entitled " Sacred
Thoughts in Yerse, by William Sewell, M.A." Lon-
don : Jas. Bohn. 1835. xii. and 355.
(viii.) "An Address to a Christian Congregation on
the Approach of the Cholera Morbus." Oxford : D. A.
Talboys. London: C. J. G. Rivington; J. Bohn; and
H. G. Bohn. 1832. pp.65.
(ix.) " Parochial Sermons on Particular Occasions."
Oxford : D. A. Talboys. London : C. J. Rivington ; J.
Bohn; and H. G. Bohn. 1832. pp. x. and 311.
(x.) " A Letter to a Dissenter on the Opposition of the
University of Oxford to the Charter of the London
College." Oxford : D. A. Talboys. London : C. J.
Rivington; J. Bohn; and H. G. Bohn. 1834
(xi.) " A Second Letter to a Dissenter on the Opposi-
tion of the University of Oxford to the Charter of the
London College." Oxford: D. A. Talboys. London:
♦Sir Robert Inglie, Bart., D.C.L., of Christ Church, was elected
member for the University of Oxford in 1829, vice the Eight; Hon.
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., D.C.L.
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C. J. Rivington; J. Bolin; and H. G. Bokn. 1834.
pp. 57.
(xii.) " Thoughts on Subscription, in a Letter to a
Member of Convocation." Oxford: D. A. Talboys.
London: C. J. Rivington; J. Bohn; and H. G. Bohn.
1834. pp. 62.
(xiii.) " Thoughts on the Admission of Dissenters to
the University of Oxford ; and on the Establishment of
a State Religion ; in a Letter to a Dissenter." Oxford :
D. A. Talboys. London: C. J. Rivington; J. Bohn;
and H. G. Bohn. 1834. pp. 117.
(xiv.) " Two Sermons on the Enforcement of Attend-
ance upon Daily Worship; Preached in the Chapel of
Exeter College, Oxford. To which is Annexed A Letter
to the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley, one of His Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State." London: James Bohn.
1834. pp. 34 and liv.
(xv.) " The Attack Upon the University of Oxford.
In a Letter to Earl Grey." Oxford: D. A. Talboys.
London: C J. Rivington; J. Bohn; and H. G. Bohn.
1834. pp. 56. 2nd Edition, 1834. pp. 63.
(xvi.) "Postscript to Thoughts on Subscription."
Oxford: D. A. Talboys. London: C. J. Rivington; J.
Bohn; and H. G. Bohn. 1835. pp. 28.
(xvii.) " Sermons Addressed to Young Men." 1835.
(xviii.) " An Inaugural Lecture on the Study of Moral
Philosophy. Delivered in the Clarendon, May 25, 1836.
The Dangers and Safeguards of Ethical Science."
Oxford : D. A. Talboys. 1837. pp. 66.
(xix.) "Christian Morals." London: James Burns.
(Volume X. of the Englishman's Library.) 1840. pp.
viii. and 411. A New Edition, 1841. pp. viii. and 422.
(xx.) " An Introduction to the Dialogues of Plato."
London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington. 1841. pp. xii.
and 388. ^
(xxi.) "A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D.,
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Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ
Cliurch, on tlie Publication of No. 90 of the Tracts for
the Times." Oxford: John Henry Parker. London:
J. G. F. and J. Rivington. 1841. pp. 13. Second
Edition, With a Postscript, 1841. pp. 13 ; postscript 4.
(xxii.) " Protestantism and Popery. A Sermon.
Preached in the Parish Church of Adare, Limerick, and
Published by Request." London: James Burns. 1842.
pp.22._
(xxiii.) " The Duty of Young Men in Times of Con-
troversy. A Sermon Preached Before the University of
Oxford, on May 29, 1843, Being the Anniversary of the
Restoration." Oxford: John Henry Parker. London:
J. G. and F. Rivington. 1843. pp. 48.
(xxiv.) " Popular Evidences of Christianity." Part
I. (No more published.) London : John Murray.
1843. pp. iv. and 423.
A Second Edition, entitled " Dialogues on the Evi-
dences of Christianity Between A Brahmin and A
Christian." 1845.
(xxv.) "Christian Politics." London: James Bums.
1844. pp. xii. and 420.
(xxvi.) " Uncle Peter's Fairy Tales. The First
Story Containing the History and Adventures of Little
Mary, Queen of the Great Brakarakakaka. By Uncle
Peter." London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Long-
mans. 1844. pp. 247.
(xxvii.) " The First Voyage of Rudolph the Yoyager.''
London: James Burns. 1844. pp. 259.
Second Edition. Oxford : John Henry Parker. 1848.
(xxvii i.) " The Second Yoyage of Rudolph the
Yoyager." London : Jamesi Burns. 1844. pp. 327.
Second Edition. Oxford : John Henry Parker. 1848.
(xxix.) "A Plan for an Irish Collegiate School and
Institution, in a Letter to a Friend. To which is Added
a Journal." London. [For Private Circulation.] 1845.
pp. 32 and 131.
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(xxx.) " The Plea of Conscience for Seceding from
the Catholic Church to the Romish iSchism in England.
A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford,
November 5, 1845. To which, is Prefixed an Essay on
the Process of Conscience." Oxford: John Henry
Parker, 1845, pp. xxvii. and 53.
Fourth Edition, 1846.
(xxxi.) " Hawkstone : A Tale of and for England in
184 — ." Two vols. (Published Anonymously.) Lon-
don: John Murray. 1845. pp. viii., 396, and 422.
Second Edition, 1846. Third Edition, 3 vols., 1847.
(xxxii.) " The New Speaker and Holiday Task Book,
Selected from Classical Greek, Latin, and English
Writers." 1846.
(xxxiii.) " The Agamemnon of Ascbylus. Translated
Literally and Ehythmically." London: Longmans.
1846. pp. 86.
(xxxiv.) " The Georgics of Yirgil, witk the Text of
Hyne, Literally and Rhythmically Translated."
London : Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1846. pp. 162,
(xxxv.) " Journal of a Residence, at the College of
St. Columba, in Ireland. With, a Preface." Oxford:
John Henry Parker. 1847. pp. xliv. and 155.
Second Edition, 1848. (It had been printed privately
in 1843.)
(xxxvi.) " The Christmas Holidays in Rome. By the
Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, M.A. Edited by the Rev.
Wm. Sewell, B.D." (Preface, by the Editor, dated
Exeter College, December 2, 1846.) London: Long-
mans, 1847. pp. 292.
(xxxvii.) " Christian Communism. A Sermon
Preached on the Occasion of Laying the First Stone of
the Almshouse Chapel of St. Maiy Magdalene, Ckis-
wick." Oxford: John Henry Parker. 1848. pp. 24.
(xxxviii.) " The Danger and Safeguard of the Young
in the Present State of Controversy. A Sermon Preached
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Before the TJniversity of Oxford on the Feast of the
Purification." Oxford: John Henry Parker. 1848,
pp. 35.
(xxxix.) " The Sketches : Three Tales by the Authors
of ' Amy Herbert,' ' The Old Man's Home,' and ' Hawk-
stone.' " (Miss E. M. Sewell, the Eev. William Adams,
and the Rev. Wm. Sewell.) London : Longmans. 1848.
pp. iv. and 262.
(xl.) " The Nation, the Church, and the University of
Oxford. Two Sermons Preached Before the University
of Oxford in November, 1849. Oxford: John Henry
Parker. 1849. pp. 99.
(xli.) "A Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the
Friends of National Education, at Willis's Eooms,
February 7, 1850." Oxford : John Henry Parker. 1850.
pp. 28.
(xlii.) "The Position of Christ's Church in England
at this Time as a Witness to Divine Truth." A Sermon
Printed in " Sermons Preached at St. Barnabas,
Pimlico." 1850.
(xliii.) " Suggestions to Minds Perplexed by the
Gorliam Case. A Sermon Preached at the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, on Sexagesima Sunday, 1850." Oxford:
John Henry Parker. 1850. pp. 30.
Second Edition. 1850.
(xliv.) " Westminster Churches. A Sermon Preached
in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on the Fourth Sunday
After Easter, 1850." Oxford: John Henry Parker.
1850. pp. 30.
(xlv.) " The Character of Pilate and the Spirit of the
Age. A Course of Sermons Preached at the Chapel
Royal, Whitehall." Oxford: John Henry Parker.
1850. pp. 180.
(xlvi.) " The Odea and Epodes of Horace. Translated
Literally and Rhythmically." London: Henry Gr.
Bohn. 1850. pp. xi. and 180.
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(xlvii.) " The Legislation of the University of Oxford,
and the Hebdomadal Board. A Speech Prepared for the
Convocation, April 23, 1850." Oxford: John Henry
Parker. 1850. pp. 45.
(xlviii.) " Suggestions for the Extension* of the
University, Submitted to the Rev. the Vice-Chancellar."
Oxford: Baxter. 1850. pp. 11.
(xlix.) " The University Commission, or Lord John
Russell's Postbag of April 27, 1850."
The first instalment, pp. vii. and 35.
The second instalment, pp. i. and 41.
The third instalment, pp. iv. and 37.
The fourth instalment. Containing Mister Anthony
Pepys, his diary, he being a member of the said Com-
mission, pp.i. and 47.
(Published anonymously.) Oxford : W. Baxter, 1850.
(1.) " Oaths to Obey Statutes, A Sermon Preached
Before the University of Oxford." Oxford : John Henry
Parker. 1852. pp. 34.
(li.) " The Servant of Christ. A Sermon Preached
With Reference to the Character of the Late Duke of
Wellington." Oxford: John Henry Parker. 1852.
pp. 23. Third Edition, 1852.
(lii.) " Misgivings on the Requisition to Lord Derby,
by a Conserv^ative Member of Convocation." (In the
form of a letter to Archdeacon Denison, signed W. S.)
Not Published. No date, but about 1852. Oxford,
pp 19.
(liii.) " Collegiate Reform. A Sermon." Oxford.
1853.
(liv.) " A Year's Sermons to Boys, Preached in the
Chapel of St. Peter's College, Radley." Radley : Albert
Wassail. 1854. pp. xv. and 432.
* There is an article upon the Rev. Wm. Sewell, with a portrait
from a photogi-aph by Messrs. Hills and Saunders, of Oxford, entitled
"The Pioneer of University Extension Teaching," in the "Oxford
University Extension Gazette," for January, 1894, Vol. IV., No. 40,
page 45.
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(Iv.) " A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of St. Peter's
College, Eadley, on the Death of R ." London:
William Stevens. 1857. pp. 15.
(Ivi.) " Sermons to Boys, Preached in the Chapel of
St. Peter's College, Eadley." Vol. II. Eadley.
(Printed for Private Circulation, and Not Published, by
William Stevens, London.) 1859. pp. xxiv. and 631.
(Ivii.) "A Sermon Preached on the Re-opening of
Oldbury Church, Tuesday, November 30th, 1858."
Bridgnorth: W. J. Eowley. Oxford: J. H. and J.
Parker. 1859. pp. 18.
(Iviii.) " A Sermon on the Death of the Eev. H. T. T.
West, M.A., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Eadley.
Preached in the Chapel of the College on the Monday in
Holy Week." (Printed for Private Circulation.) 1859.
pp. 24.
(lix.) " A Letter on the Inspiration of Holy Scripture,
Addressed to a Student." Oxford : John Henry Parker.
1861. pp. IIL
(Ix.) " Christian Vestages of Creation." Oxford :
J. H. and Jas. Parker. 1861. pp. 156.
(Ixi.) " Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth
Century." London: Longmans. 1869. pp. 478.
(Ixii.) "The Giant." (A Fairy Tale.) London:
Longmans. 1871. pp. xii. and 223.
(Ixiii.) " Mrs. Britton's Letter Touching the Europa
Troubles." London: Longmans. 1871. pp. 91.
(Ixiv.) "Poems of Bygone Years." London: Long-
mans. 1871. pp. viii. and 262.
(Ixv.) " A Speech at the Annual Dinner of Old
Eadleians, held at Willis's Eooms, June 22, 1872, by the
Founder, W. S." Oxford : Jas. Parker and Co. 1873.
pp. iv. and 115.
(Ixvi.) "A Letter to the Editor of 'Anglo-Catholic
Principles Vindicated,' from the late Eev. William
Sewell, D.D., on the Eevolutionary Spirit Lately Mani-
[24]
fested in Our Church ; and How it is to be Dealt "With."
(No Place of Publication.) 1875. pp. 13.
(Ixvii.) " The Microscope of the New Testament."
Edited by the Eev. W. J. Crichton, M.A. London:
Rivingtons. 1878. pp. xx. and 438.
(Ixviii.) " A Diatessaron or Chronological Arrange-
ment of the Gospel Narrative." (No date or place of
publication.) pp. 38.
(Ixix.) " The Festival of St. Michael and All Angels."
Wellington : Robert Barrett. (No date.) pp. 16.
Between the years 1837 and 1846 William Sewell con-
tributed fifteen articles to the " Quarterly Review. They
are : —
Tol. 58. Cathedral Establishments. February, 1837.
A^ol. 61. Memorials of Oxford. January, 1838.
Vol. 63. Oxford Theology. December, 1838.
Vol. 65. Gladstone on Church and State. December,
1839.
Vol. 66. Alexandria and the Alexandrians. June,
1840.
Oxford Tutors and Professors. June, 1840.
Carlyle's Works. June, 1840.
Vol. 67, Romanism in Ireland. December, 1840.
Romish Priests in Ireland. March, 1841.
Vol. 68. Irish Peasantry. September, 1841.
Gothic Architecture. December, 1841.
Vol. 69. Divines of the Seventeenth Century. March,
1842.
Vol. 70. Sepulchral Monuments. September, 1842.
Vol. 70. Character of Popery. December, 1842.
A-'ol. 76. Relation of Clergy to the People. September,
1845.
The ;jddres3 delivered at the opening of St. Columba's
College by Sewell, and re-printed in " Journal of a Resi-
dence at the College of St. Columba," was originally
printed in the " Irish Ecclesiastical Journal " for May,
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1843. Sewell also published an article on Aristopkanea*
" Clouds " in " Blackwood's Magazine,"
At Ashcliff are preserved the following works by
William Sewell, still in MS. : —
(i.) Lexilogus.* 4 volumes,
(ii.) Lectures on Inspiration. 1 volume,
(iii.) Microscope of the Diatessaron. 2 volumes,
(iv.) The Psalms of David in Verse. T volume,
(v.) The Iliad of Homer Translated. 2 volumes,
(vi.) The Odyssey of Homer Translated. 2 volumes.
So ends the long list of writings of "William
Sewell. As has been said before, he was not a
man of business, and he . made little from his
literary work, as will be seen from the following note in
his "Journal": — "For my articles in the 'Quarterly'
Murray used to give me £50 or £60 a piece, once for the
' Seventeenth Century ' giving £100. Blackwood gave
me £25 for the ' Clouds.' For the Sermon I preached
before the University on the Plea of Conscience I got £90.
Bohn gave me £50 for the ' Horace ' ; seventy I had for
' Christian Morals ' ; about £100 for the several editions of
' Hawkstone.' For other things I have got nothing."
After William Sewell's death his brother, the AVarden of
New College, and his sisters collected the various obituary
notices of him which appeared in the public press, and they
were printed in a pamphlet, entitled " Memorial Notices of
the Rev. William Sewell, D.D." Printed by St. Giles
Printing Co., Edinburgh. 1894. pp. 92.
There is a life of William Sewell in the 51st volume of
the Dictionary of National Biography, but it was written
*That which is named "Lexilogua" (and which occupies four
volumes) is a large collection of those Greek words that seem similar
in sense to some one other word in Greek, and which thus not un-
commonly are translated by the same word in English. Of these,
when bracketted together, there is shown, with regard to each
separately, the nice and true and delicate "distinction" of meaning;
this distinction being illustrated in a manner interesting to scholajs
by reference to usee of such words or expressions in Apostolic wTitings
of Greek authors. Note in Preface to "Microscope of the New-
Testament," page xi.
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by G. C. Boase, whose brother was a Fellow at Exeter
College, and it puts the worst complexion possible upon
the financial troubles at Radley. As for the statement
that Sewell involved the College of St. Columba in a debt
of £25,000, 1 believe this to be a pure fabrication. Sewell's
leaving St. Columba's had nothing to do with the finances
of the place. In AVilliam Tuckwell's " Reminiscences of
Oxford "* is a vivid but somewhat ill-natured sketch of
William Sewell, and the same may be said of the recollec-
tions of him in " Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel and the
Oxford Movement," by Tom Mozley."t By far the best
account, and the truest estimate of the character of AVilliam
Sewell, will be found in Raikes' " Fifty Years of St. Peter's
College, Radley."J
(3) Anne Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Sewell,
of Newport, was born 26th March, 1805. She died 17th
January, 1807, and is buried in the old cemetery, Newport.
(4) Thomas Sewell, third son of Thomas Sewell, of New-
port, was born 2nd June, 180G. He was educated at Hyde
Abbey, Winchester, and, on leaving school, entered his
father's office at Newport, being intended for a Solicitor,
but he died, at the age of 20, 7th September, 1826, and was
buried in the old cemetery at Newport, 14th September
following. He was author of : —
" Carolus Quintus, Imperator, sceptrum deponit,
atque extremum vitae spatium privatus ducit." 1819.
A Latin Prize Poem, published in " Musae Hydenses :
sen, Poemata Quaedam Praemio Donata, auctoribus
Hydensis Scholae Alumnis. Pars. I. Winchester:
1828." pp. 67—71.
(5) Henry Sewell, fourth son of Thomas Sewell, of New-
* " Reminiacences of Oxford," by the Rev. W. Tuckwell. London,
Cassell and Co., 1901, page 234-, et seq.
t" Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel and the Oxford Movement," by
the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London, Longmans, 1882. Vol. II., page 23,
et seq.
+ " Fifty Years of St. Peter's College, Radley," by the Rev. T. D.
Raikes, M.A., and other Old Radleians. Oxford, James Parker and
Co., 1897.
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pert, was born at Newport, 14th September, 1807. He
married, 1st, Lucinda Marianne, eldest daughter of Major-
Gen. William Nedham, of Mount Olive, Jamaica, 2ndly,
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Captain Edward Kittoe, R.N.,
of Deal, Co. Kent. [See Page 40.]
- (6) Robert Burleigh Sewell, fifth son of Thomas Sewell,
of Newport, was born 21st September, 1809. He man-ied,
firstly, Marianne Billingsley, daughter of the Hev. George
Turner Seymour, of Eurnmgford House, Isle of Wight;
secondly, Eliza Isabella, daughter of the Rev. Collingwood
Foster Eenwick, Rector of Brooke, Isle of Wight. [See
Page 61.]
(7) James Edwards Sewell, sixth son of Thomas Sewell,
of Newport, was born on Christmas Day, 1810. He was
named after his uncle, James Edwards. He received his
earliest education at a lady's house at Newport, her name
being Belinda Crooke. When old enough to go to a boys*
school he went as a day scholar to the Grammar School at
Newport. In 1820 he went, as a scholar, to Winchester,
and remained there till he was admitted a scholar of New
College, December 3rd, 1827. He matriculated in
December, 1827. He was a Fellow of his College from
1830 to 1860, Tutor from 1835 to 1850, Dean of Arts 1835,
Bursar 1836, Dean of Divinity 1837, Sub-Warden 1839,
and Librarian 1842. He proceeded B.A. in 1832 ; M.A.
in 1835 ; B.D. and D.D. in 1860.
James Edwards Sewell was ordained Deacon by the
Bishop of Winchester (Sumner), at Farnham, on the 16th
of July, 1834, to be an Assistant Curate to the Rev. G. W.
Heathcote at that time Vicar of Hursley. But he returned
to New College in 1835, to hold a Tutorship, and was
ordained Priest by the Bishop of Oxford (Bagot), in 1836.
He was licensed to perform the office of Curate of
Wootton,* Berks, on the 2nd of July, 1852, and, quitting
• The Incumbent of Wootton was the Rev. the Hon. Henry William
Bertie, but he never came near the place; Sewell used to come over,
ficm Oxford, from Saturday to Monday, and sleep at a cottage, which
is still standing.
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ttis, lie was licensed to the Curacy of Begbroke* on the
lOth of September, 1855.
In 1860 Dr. Williams, Warden of New College, died,
and Sewell was elected in bis place. The votes were :
Sewell, 38; Heatlicotef, 14; Moberlyj, 5. As Vice-
Chancellor, a post which he held from 1874 to 1878, he
proved himself an ideal chairman, thoroughly acquainted
with whatever business was in hand, but never swerving
from impartiality or striving to get his own way. He had
had some previous experience of the work, for when Dr.
Williams was Vice-Chancellor he found the work too much
for him, and £100 a year was voted to him by the Hebdo-
madal Council for the employment of a secretary. He
oflered the post to Sewell, who readily accepted it, and in
a short time made himself virtual Vice-Chancellor.
Sewell also held the offices of Curator of the University
Chest, Commissioner of the Market, Curator of the
University Parks, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He was, ex-
officio as Warden of New College, a Governor of Win-
chester College.
Sewell was a Conservative, but so fully was his fairness
of judgment trusted that the Liberal party in the
University not only did not oppose his election to the
Council, but once or twice were prepared to adopt him, in
case of a contest, as their candidate.
Although Sewell's first thoughts were for his College and
his University, both of which he loved and served so well,
nevertheless he had other interests. He was a Guardian
of the Poor, first Secretary of the Local Examinations, and
Chairman for many years of the Governors of the Warne-
ford Asylum.
* The Rector of Begbroke at that time was the Rev. Ellis Ashton,
but he was a non-resident, and seems to have held the Vicarage of
Huyton, Co. Lancaster, at the same time.
tThe Rev. William Beadon Heathcote, Fellow of New College,
1832-^53, afterwards Warden of Radley.
t The R€v. Henry Edward Moberly, Fellow of New College, 184-1—
60; now Rector of St. Michael's, Winchester.
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Sewell, unlike so many of his family, never published
anything, but he printed " The History of the Visitation
of the University of Oxford by a Parliamentary Com-
missioner in the years 1G47, 1648, Abridged from the
Annals of Anthony a Wood. Oxford : J. H. Parker."
pp. 39. He also composed the annals of all the Fellows of
New College and Winchester, but this remains in MS.
Sewell died at New College, 29th January, 1903, having
held the Wardenship for nearly 43 years, and far longer
than any of his predecessors. He had been able to attend
to the business of the College to within a very short time
of his death. He was buried in the cloisters of his College,
near to the western door of the Chapel, on Saturday,
February 7th, Upwards of 500 members of the University
and others were present. The death of the venerable
Warden of New Colleg'e was felt keenly in Oxford, for it
was much more than the death of a good and respected
man, who had been a prominent figure in the University
for over sixty years ; it was the severance of a link with
the past. He was almost the last survivor in Oxford of the
men who gained their Fellowships before the Tractarian
Movement had made itself felt, and of the academic
generation which was actively concerned in collegiate ad-
ministration before the rumours of impending reform were
heard. No man was ever more loyal in accepting changes
which were distasteful to him, and Sewell had his reward
in seeing the wonderful expansion of his College during the
forty-two years of his rule. His simplicity and courtesy
made him a fine representative of the old school amidst a
generation whose ideals and mode of life were in strong
contrast to his own. A great man he cannot be called;
yet from his perfect adaptation for the exceptional part
he was called on to play, he has exerted a greater influence
than men far surpassing him in native genius. There is a
portrait of the Warden of New College, from a photograph
by Hills and Sanders, in "Oxford Men and Their
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Colleges," by Joseph Foster, Page 204. There is also a
cartoon of him, drawn by " Spy," in " Yanity Fair" for
April 5th, 1894. Vol. LI., No. 1,327.
(8) John George Sewell, youngest son of Thomas Sewell,
of Newport, was born 9th of April, 1812. He went to the
Grammar School at Newport, but died when only ten
years of age, on the 24th of October, 1822. He was
buried in the old cemetery at Newport, 29th October
following.
(9) Ellen Mary, second daughter of Thomas Sewell, of
Newport, was bom on the 6th of June, 1813. She received
her first education at Miss Crooke's school in High Street,
Newport, but later she went for a time, with her sister
Elizabeth, to a school at Bath, kept by the Misses Aldridge..
It was here that she met Lucinda (Lucy) Nedham and
Marianne Seymour, both of whom afterwards became her
sisters-in-law.
In 1842 Thomas Sewell, her father died, and it was found
that he had left large debts behind him. His children
together, most honourably, instead of taking the ordinary
course, and letting the estate be wound up in bankruptcy,
undertook to pay so much a year until all the creditors
were paid in full. This they eventually did, but it took
over thirty years, and was a most severe strain upon those
of the family upon whom the burden mostly fell. On
leaving the Newport house the family lived for a year at
Pidford, where the Henry Sewells had been living, but in
1843 they all moved to Ventnor, and lived there at a house,
near the station, called Elm Grove. In the spring of 1844
Mrs. Thomas Sewell and her four daughters settled at Sea
View, Bonchurch. This was bought and greatly enlarged
about 1854 by Elizabeth. Later the name of the house
was changed to Ashcliff, and here the family have lived
ever since.
Mrs. Henry Sewell died in 1844, and then the care of her
children practically devolved upon Ellen Sewell and her
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sister. Later on, to some extent, the care of their brother
Robert's children, also motherless, came to them.
In 1851 it was thought advisable to take pupils to educate
together with their nieces, and this was the beginning of
that educational work which Elizabeth Sewell, with the
aid of her sister, carried on so successfully, till, in 1891,
increasing years made it necessary that the pupils should
be given up. Ellen Sewell taught music, singing, and
drawing entirely. The daily Scripture lessons, physical
geography, astronomy, algebra were also her special sub-
jects, and for her own pleasure she read many scientific
authors.
Ellen Mary Sewell was a beautiful pianist, and even
after her sight failed her she would, up to June, 1902, be
led every evening from her room to the drawing-room, and
for nearly an hour would sit at the piano, playing a succes-
sion of brilliant airs, with variations full of runs, marches,
and quadrilles. But it was as a water-colour artist* that
she chiefly excelled. A very large number of her sketches,
chiefly of the Isle of Wight, are preserved at AshcliS.
Most of the illustrations in her brother William's " Sacred
Thoughts in Verse " are by her. In June, 1902, almost
total deafness came suddenly upon her, but she lived on
till 1905, when she died peacefully on Sunday morning,
March the 5th. She was buried in the churchyard of the
New Church at Bonchurch, on Thursday, March 9th.
She edited " Sailors' Hymns," with Music. London:
Novello, Ewer, and Co. pp. 44. A third edition of this,
without music, was published by Simpkin Marshall and
Co., London, pp. 31. The words of the hymns are
mostly written by the Rev. Arthur Sewell.
(10) Elizabeth Missing, third daughter of Thomas
Sewell, of Newport, was bom the 19th of February, 1815.
She was educated, first, at Miss Crooke's School at Newport,
* A print of her drawing of " The Naval Review at Spithead on
April 22nd, 1856," came out in the "Illustrated Mail" (the "Daily
Mail's " Weekly Edition) 25rd August, 1902.
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and afterwards, as stated above, at the Misses Aldridge's
School at Bath. She was named after her godmother, Mrs.
Missing,
When it became necessary for the Miss Sewells to take
pupils at Bonchurch, the lion's share of the work fell upon
Elizabeth Sewell.
Elizabeth Sewell shares with Miss Yonge the honour of
having provided wholesome literature for girls of the upper
and middle classes. Although not read so much now, when
people want, perhaps, something more exciting, yet her
books had a large circulation, both in England and
America. Her earlier works were edited by her brother
William, and she again edited the stories which he,
William Sewell, wrote. Elizabeth Sewell was also the
foundress of St. Boniface's School, Ventnor, which for
many years did good work in educating the daughters of
the middle class in the Isle of Wight.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell is authoress of the following
works : —
(i.) " Stories Illustrative of the Lord's Prayer." Edited
by a Clergyman. London : James Burns. 1843. pp. 70.
(Reprinted from " The Cottagers' Monthly Visitor "
for 1840.)
(ii.) " Amy Herbert." Edited by the Rev. W. Sewell.
In two volumes. London: Longmans. 1844. pp. 284
and 235.
New Edition, 1863, in one volume, pp. 349.
(iii.) " Gertrude." Edited by the Rev. W. Sewell. In
two volumes. London: Longmans. 1845. pp. 274
and 244.
New Edition, 1862, in one volume, pp. 338.
(iv.) " Laneton Parsonage : A Tale for Children, on
the Practical Use of a Portion of the Church Catechism."
Edited by the Rev. W. Sewell. London: Longmans.
Part I. published in 1846. pp. iv. and 248.
Part II. published in 1848. pp. i. and 229.
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Part III. published in 1848. pp. 337.
New Edition in 1862, in one volume, pp. 550.
(v.) " Margaret Percival." Edited by the Eev. W.
Sewell. In two volumes. London : Longmans 1847.
pp. iv., 460, and 485.*
New Edition in 1862. One volume, pp. 621.
(vi.) " The Sketches : Three Tales by the Authors of
* Amy Herbert,' ' The Old Man's Home,' and ' Hawk-
stone.' " (Miss E. M. Sewell, the Rev. William Adams,
and the Rev. Wm. Sewell.) London : Longmans. 1848.
pp. iv. and 262.
(vii.) " The Child's Eirst History of Rome." 1849.
pp. i. and 220.
(viii.) "Was It a Dream?" and "The New Church-
yard." London: Joseph Masters. 1849. pp. 67.
(ix.) "The Earl's Daughter." Edited by the Rev.
W. Sewell. Two volumes. London : Longmans. 1850.
pp. 240 and 250.
New Edition, 1863, in one volume, pp. 327.
(x.) " Readings for Every Day in Lent. Compiled
from the Writings of Bishop Jeremy Taylor." London :
Longmans. 1851. pp. iv. and 368.
(si.) " A Journal Kept During a Summer Tour, for the
Children of a Village School." In three parts. London :
Longmans. 1852. pp. ii. and 124, 193 ; iv. and 203.
(xii.) " A Eirst History of Greece." London : Long-
mans. 1852. pp. xii. and 345.
(xiii^^The Experience of Life." London: Long-
mans. 1852. pp. 471.
(xiv.) " Readings for a Month Preparatory to Con-
firmation. Compiled from the Works of Writers of the
Early and of the English Church," London : Long-
mans. 1853. pp. i. and 367.
• A contiuuation of this, entitled " Margaret Percival in America,
a tale Edited by a New England Minister, A. B. B^ing a sequel to
Margaret Percival, a tale Edited by the Rev. William Sewell, B.A.,"
wafl published by Phillips, Simpson and Co., of Boston, in 1850.
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(xv.) " Katharine Ashton." In two volumes. London :
Longmans. 1854. pp. 378 and 362.
New Edition in 1863, in one volume, pp. 501
(xvi.) " Cleve Hall." In two volumes. London:
Longmans. 1855. pp. 394 and 362.
Xew Edition in 1862, one volume, pp. 450.
(xvii.) "Ivors." In two volumes. London: Long-
mans. 1856. pp. 399 and 439.
New Edition in 1862, one volume, pp. 489.
(xviii.) " Thoughts for the Holy Week for Young
Persons." London: J. H. Parker and Sons. 1857.
pp. vi. and 97.
(xix.) " LTrsula : A Tale of Country Life." In two
volumes. London: Longmans. 1858. pp. 460 and
459.
(xx.) ■' Extrait Choisis : or Selections from Modem
French Authors." London: Longmans. 1858. pp.
424.
(xxi.) " Self-examination Before Con-firmation. With
Devotions and Directions for the Confirmation Day."
London. 1859. pp. vi. and 154.
(xxii.) " History of the Early Church from the First
Preaching of the Gospel to the Council of Nicea. For the
Use of Young Persons." London: Longmans. 1859.
pp. 385. ^i:>4S52S
The third edition, published in 1870, has Questions for
Examination.
(xxiii.) " Answer to the Education Questions.^' Lon-
don : Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1859. pp. 13.
(xxiv.) " Extracts from the Works of the Author of
' Amy Herbert.' " Cheltenham. 1859.
(xxv.) " Sentences from the Works of the Author of
' Amy Herbert.' " London. 1860.
(xxvi.) "Passing Thoughts on Religion." London:
Longmans. 1860. pp. viii. and 323.
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(xxvii.) " Night Lessons from Scripture." London :
Long-mans. 1860. pp. iv, and 403.
(xxviii.) '' Contes Faciles. A Selection from Modem
French "Writers for the Use of Children." London:
Longmans. 1861. pp. 219.
(xxix.) " Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin."
London : Longmans. 1862. pp. xii. and 330.
(xxx.) " Ancient History of Egypt, Assyria, and
Babylonia." London : Longmans, pp. x. and 418.
(xxxi.) " Dictation Exercises : A New Spelling-Book."
London : Longmans. 1862. pp. vi. and 72.
Second Series. 1865. pp. 209.
(xxxii.) " A Glimpse of the World." London : Long-
mans. 1863. pp. 537.
(xxxiii.) " Preparation for the Holy Communion.
The' Devotions Chiefly Compiled from the Works of
Bishop Taylor." London : Longmans. 1864. pp. 182.
(xxxiv.) " Principles of Education, Drawn from
Nature and Eevelation, and Applied to Female Educa-
tion in the Upper Classes." In two volumes. London :
Longmans. 1865. pp. 288 and 322.
(xxxv.) " Contes ct Critiques Frangais recueillis des
Auteurs Modernes." London: Longmans. 1867. pp.351.
(xxxvi.) "The Journal of a Home Life." 1867.
London: Longmans, pp. vi. and 413.
(xxxvii.) "After Life: Sequel to The Journal of a
Home Life." London: Longmans. 1868. pp.484.
(xxxviii.) " Historical Selections. A Series of Read-
ings from the Best Authorities on English and European
History." Selected and Arranged by E. M. Sewell and
C. M. Yonge. London: Macmillan. 1868. pp. xvi.
and 368.
(xxxix.) " Slater's Sententise Chronologicae. Revised
and Much Enlarged." 1868.
(xl.) " Thoughts for the Age." London. 1870. pp.
viii. and 348.
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(xli.) " European History, Narrated in a Series of
Historical Selections from the Best Authorities." Edited
and Arranged by E. M. Sewell and C. M. Yonge. 1088 —
1228. London; Macmillan. 1870. pp. xii. and 416.
(xlii.) " Grammar Made Easy." London: Longmans.
1872. pp. 115.
(xliii.) "A Catechism of Roman History." London:
Longmans. 187^. pp. iv. and 152.
(xliv.) "A Catechism of English History." London:
Longmans.
(xlv.) " Catechism of the History of Greece." Lon-
don: Longmans. 1874. pp. 144.
(xlvi.) " Some Questions of the Day." (These letters
were originally published in the " Monthly Packet.")
London : Longmans. 1875. pp. 122.
(xlvii.) " Popular History of France, from the Earliest
Period to the Death of Louis XIY." London: Long-
mans. 1876.
(xlviii.) " Some Last Words of the Rev. W. Sewell,
D.D. Being a Brief Review of Certain Controverted
Religious Questions. With a Prefatory Notice by his
Sister," London: Rivingtons. 1876. pp. xii. and 59.
(xlix.) " Private. Devotions for Young Persons."
London: Longmans. 1881. pp. 158.
(1.) " Note Book of an Elderly Lady." London :
Walter Smith. 1881. (Reprinted from the " Monthly
Packet.") pp. vi. and 349.
(li.) " Letters on Daily Life." (Reprinted from the
" Monthly Packet.") London: Walter Smith. 1885.
pp. viii. and 352.
(Hi.) " Extracts from a Private Journal Kept from
1845 to 1891." (Printed for Private Circulation.) Edin-
burgh : St. Giles Printing Co. 1891. pp. iv. and 322.
(liii.) "Two Tales by Elizabeth M. Sewell. (1) "A
Eriend in Disguise." pp. 21. (2) " The Fate of a
Favourite." pp. 29. (These two tales were written in 1847,
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?n tke hope of obtaining a small sum for the new church
at Bonchuroh. They were afterwards lost, but were copied
from the " Churchman's Companion " in the Bodleian,
and then put into type- writing.) c. 1891.
(liv.) " An Address to Elder Girls for the Year 1894."
" Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be
lost." Yentnor: Medley, Printer. 1893. pp. 8.
(Iv.) " Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell, of Ash-
cliff, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight." (Printed for Private
Circulation.) Edinburgh: St. Giles Printing Co. 1893.
pp. 126.
(Ivi.) " Outline History of Italy, from the Fall of the
Western Empire." With Preface by Lucy H. M.
Soulsby. London: Longmans. 1895. pp. viii. and 283.
(Ivii.) " Conversations Between Youth and Age."
London : Longmans. 1896. pp. 96.
Besides those works, mentioned above, which were
originally printed in magazines, Elizabeth Sewell contri-
buted occasionally to the " Monthly Packet." She also
published, in 1870, an article in " Macmillan's Magazine "
on the " Kaiserwerth Deaconesses,"* and in 1888 one on
" Modern Education "t in the " Nineteenth Century."
(11) Emma Frances, fourth daughter of Thomas Sewell,
of Newport, was born on the 16th of January, 1818. She
was educated by her elder sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, and
lived all her life with them in the Isle of Wight. In
August, 1848, during a stay at Oxford, she so overstrained
her strength that she brought on a spinal complaint. She
was allowed by Mr. Coxe, Librarian of the Bodleian, to copy
pictures there, and stood nearly all day at a desk, and then
for rest went for a long walk. The result was life-long
illness. She died at Ashcliff, April the 27th, 1897, and
* " Kaiseiwerth and the Protestant Deaconesses," January, 1870.
Vol. XXI., pp. 229 to 237.
t " The Reign of Pedantry in Girls' Schools," February, 1888.
Vol. XXIII., pp. 216 to 238.
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was buried in the churchyard of the New Church, on
Saturday, May the 1st.
(12) Jane (Janetta), youngest daughter of Thomas
Sewcll, of Newport, was born the 3rd of June, 1819. She
lived with her sisters in the Isle of Wight, but upon the
appointment of her youngest brother, James Edwards
Sewell, to the Wardenship of New College, she went to
Oxford, where she kept house for her brother until her
death, which occurred on the 28th of July, 1890. She was
buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford, on July 31st.
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CHAPTER III.
Ibenrg Sewell, of XWaelltnaton, IRew z:ealan^
anC) Cbil^ren.
Henry Sewell, fourtli son of Thomas Sewell, of Newport,
was born 14tli of September, 1807, at Newport. He was
educated at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester, under Dr.
Richards.* He qualified as a Solicitor, and joined his
father's firm about 1826, the year of his brother Thomas'
death. The style of the firm was then changed from Sewell
and Hearn to Sewell, Hearn, and Sewell. He retired from
the firm, on joining the Canterbuiy Association, in 1850.
He had been Coroner and Deputy-Governor of the Isle of
Wight from 1842 to 1844.
When they first married, Henry Sewell and his wife
lived in a small house in Lugley Street, Newport, called
Lugley Cottage. In 1839 they moved to Pidford, where,
upon the death of Mrs. Thomas Sewell, the rest of the
family joined them. In 1844, as described above, they all
moved to Elm Grove, Ventnor ; but upon the death of his
first wife he moved to London, where he resided, first in
Grey's Inn Square, and then in Bloomsbury Square.
In 1850 Sewell married again, and joined, as secretary,
the Canterbury Association for the colonisation of New
Zealand. He was Deputy-chairman of the Association
from 1850 to 1852.
At the end of 1852 Sewell was sent out to New Zealand
by the Canterbury Association to vrind up its affairs. This
he effected in 1855, but, except for occasional visits to
England, he remained in New Zealand until 1876, practis-
•The Rev. Charles Richards, M.A., was for fifty years Master of
Hyde Abbey School. He died in 1853.
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in;xRV si;wi;i.i„
rRiM]-; .mixisti:r oi- xi;w zi-;ala\I).
iiig as a solicitor, and holding higli office in the Govern-
ment.
Arriving in February, 1853, Sewell settled at Lyttleton,
whence he afterwards moved to Nelson, and finally to
Wellington.
In May, 1854, Sewell was elected to the Hous& of Repre-
sentatives as member for Christehurch, and from June to
August was Solicitor-General in the first incohate Ministry
formed under Fitzgerald. In 1855 he was elected a member
of the Provincial Council of Canterbury. He became, on
7th May, 1856, the first Premier and Colonial Secretaiy on
the introduction of responsible government ; but on the
13th May he resigned, owing to the refusal of the Acting-
Governor, Colonel Wynward, to concede full responsible
functions to the Administration. On 2nd June, 1856, he
joined the first Staiford Ministry, as Colonial Treasurer and
Commissioner of Customs, and held office till April, 1859.
From 12th July, 1861, to August, 1862, he was Attorney-
General in the Fox Ministry, in December, 1861, giving up
his seat in the House of Representatives, and becoming
member of the Legislative Council for Wellington. He
continued as Attorney-General under Alfred Domett till
January, 1863. He was again Attorney-General in Sir A.
Weld's first Ministry, from 24th November, 1864, to 16th
October, 1865. In the third Fox Ministry he was Minister
of Justice from 28th June, 1869, to 10th September, 1872,
also holding the posts of Commissioner of Customs and
Commissioner of Stamps for varying periods from June,
1870, to November, 1871. Lastly, in 1872, he was Colonial
Secretary. He had been appointed Registrar-General of
the Colony in 1861.
Henry Sewell was fond of the sea, so he sailed four times
round the Cape, instead of by the shorter route, on his way
to and from New Zealand. He was a man of rare ability,
and a favourite among all parties while in the Colony. In
the spring of 1876 he finally returned to England, as his
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wife's health had given way, and the doctors would not
allow her to remain longer in New Zealand,
On his return to England, Sewell settled, first at Rom-
ford, Essex, where his eldest son was Ciirate, and then at
Salisbury Villa, Station Road, Cambridge, where he died
on the 14th of May, 1879. He was buried at "Waresley, on
May 19th. His chief reason for settling at Cambridge was
in order to be near AVaresley, where his brother-in-law, the
Rev. W. H. Elwyn, was Vicar.
Henry Sewell married, firstly, 15th May, 1834, at Broad-
water, near Worthing, Lucinda Marianne, eldest daughter
of Major-General William Nedham, of Mount Olive,
Jamaica, and Widccmbe, Bath, Colonel 4th Royal Veteran
Battalion, and M.P. for Athenry in the last Irish Parlia-
ment, 1798 to 1800. By her he had six children.
Mrs. Sewell, Lucinda (Lucy) Marianne Nedham, was
born at the Cove of Cork, Ireland, 18th December, 1812.
She died at Milbrooke, near Carisbrooke, 28th July, 1844,
and is buried in the churchyard at Carisbrooke. Henry
Sewell married, secondly, 23rd January, 1850, at Deal,
Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Captain Edward Kittoe,
R.N., of Deal, Co. Kent. By his second marriage there
were no children.
Mrs. Sewell, Elizabeth Kittoe, was bom at Sholden,
Kent, 9th February, 1819. After her husband's death
she lived with the Elwyns, at Waresley. She died the 29th
May, 1880, and was buried beside her husband in the old
churchyard at Waresley. She had been paralysed on one
side for some years before her death.
Sewell was author of the following works : —
(i.) " Anglorum Caedes Apud Hiberniam Foedissima."
A Latin Prize Poem published in " Musae Hydenses,
sue poemata quaedam praemio donata, auctoribus
Hydensis Scholae Alumnis." Part I. Winchester:
Jacob and Johnson. 1828. pp. 87 to 92. (The poem
was written in 1822.)
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(ii.) " Observations on the Illegal and Unconstitutional
Character of the Ecclesiastical Commission. By a
Layman.'"' Oxford : J. H. Parker. 1838. pp. iv. and
89.
(iii.) " The Independence of the Universitie& and
Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. By a Layman."
Oxford: J. H. Parker. 1838. pp. 43.
(iv.) " A Letter to Lord Worsley on the Burthens
Alfecting Real Property Arising from the Present State
of the Law, with Reasons in Favour of a General
Registry of Titles." London : Henry Butterworth. 1846.
pp. 110.
Second Edition, 1850, addressed to the Earl of Yar-
borough.
(v.) " Thoughts on the Relations of Man to the Ex-
ternal World." London : George Bell. 1848. pp. 167.
(vi.) " The New Zealand Rebellion. A Letter to the
Right Hon. Lord Lyttleton." London : Macmillan.
1864. pp. 56.
(vii.) " A Letter to the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Wellington, New Zealand." London: J. A. Brooks.
(For Private Circulation.) 1867. pp. 157.
(viii.) " The Case of New Zealand and our Colonial
Policy. A Letter to Edward Wilson, Esq., of Victoria."
London : Bell and Daldy. 1869. pp. 30.
(ix.) " A Lecture on New Zealand. Being One of a
Series of Lectures on the Colonies Delivered to Working
Men at St. George's, Bloomsbuiy, in 1870." (No name
of publisher or place of publication.) 1870. pp. 35.
(x.) " Financial Position of the Colony. A Speech
by the Hon. Mr. Sewell." (No date or place of publica-
tion, but delivered in 1873.) pp. 5.
Children of Henry Sewell and Lucinda Marianne, his
wife : —
(1) Mary Ellen. Bom 31st May, 1835. Married, 4th
September, 1856, Sidney James Owen. [See Page 45.]
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(2) William Sewell. Born 18tJi November, 1836.
Married, 14tli May, 1878, Elizabeth Gertrude, daughter of
the Rev. Charles Vaughan. [See Page 56.]
(3) Eleanor Lucy. Born 25th May, 1838, at Stapler's
Heath, Newport, Isle of Wight. She was baptised at St.
Thomas a Becket's, Newport, 11th July, 1838. She was
educated, as stated above, by her aunts at Ashcliff, where
she has since lived, and still resides there with her aunt
Elizabeth Missing Sewell.
(4) Henry Sewell. Bom 8th May, 1840. Married,
12th September, 1872, Sara Latham, daughter of Edward
Robe Bostock. [See Page 58.]
(5) George Sewell. Born 29th March, 1842, and
baptised at St. Thomas', Newport, on the 15th of May
following. He died at Bonchurch, 4th March, 1848, and
was buried in the churchyard of the old church there on
March 11th.
(6) Marianne* (Annie). Bom 25th February, 1844,
and baptised at St. Catherine's Church, Ventnor, April
10th following. She died 6th October, 1861, and was
buried in the churchyard of the new church at Bonchurch
on October 11th.
* " Lyra Anglicana: Hymns and Sacred Song3 collected and arranged
by the Rev. Robert H. Baynes, M.A." London: Howlston and Sous,
1884. On page 93 is a poem, signed " B. Courtenay Godley," entitled
" He Leadeth me Beside the Still Waters," and below is this note—
" In Bonchurch Churchyard there is a grave, and a simple stone cross
over it, with the name Marion Sewell, aged 17 years," and the above
text for the epitaph.
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CHAPTER IV.
TTbe ©wen Brancb.
Mary Ellen Sewell, eldest daugh.ter of Henry Sewell,
of Newport, and afterwards of New Zealand, was born at
Newport, 31st May, 1835, and baptised at St. Thomas'
Church there. She was educated by her aunts at Bon-
church. She married, 4th September, 1856, in Merton
College Chapel,* Oxford, Sidney James Owen. The
service was performed by the Rev. William Sewell,
Warden of St. Peter's College, Radley.
Sidney James Owen was the fourth son of Henry Owen,
Solicitor, of Worksop, Notts., and was born at Worksop,
30th December, 1827. He was educated, first at a pre-
paratory school at Worksop, then at Chatham House,
Ramsgate, a school kept by a Mr. ^Yhitehead, and after-
wards at Repton. It was intended that he should go to
the Bar, but on his eldest brother's health threatening to
fail, he was removed into his father's office for a time. He,
however, matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, 15th
December, 1847, and in 1852 took a Third Class in Literis
Humanioribus. He proceeded B.A. in 1853, and M.A. in
1856. He entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1849, but having
removed his name in the interval, was not finally called
until 1871.
S. J. Owen was a Fellow of St. Peter's College, Radley,
from 1854 to 1856. In the summer of the latter year he
* It was intended, first, that they should be married at Begbroke,
Oxon., of which Church the Rev. Jame« Edwards Sewell was Curat©,
but the Rectory House was found to be too small. They were, there-
fore, married from the Warden's Lodgings at New College. They
would have been married at St. Peter's-in-the-East, the Parish Church
of New College, but it was under repair, and Merton Chapel waa
being used in its stead.
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was appointed Professor of General History and Politicail
Economy at the Elphinstone College, Bombay, and went
out to India ; but was compelled by ill-health to return in
1858. After some hesitation, he resigned his appointment,
under medical advice.
On returning to England Sidney James Owen, for a
short time, assisted the Eev. George Kitchin, now Dean
of Durham, in a school Avhich he had at Twyford, near
Winchester. From January, 1860, to September, 1868,
he was Lecturer on History and Geography at Radley
College. In February, 1861, he was appointed Lee's
Eeader in Law and History at Christ Church, Oxford; in
1863 History Tutor at Magdalen College; and in 1864
Eeader in Indian Law in the University of Oxford. In
1868 Indian History was added, on his re-appointme-nt to
this office. In 1878 the office was reconstructed as a
Eeadership in Indian History only, to which he was
appointed for life, a distinct Eeadership being created in
Indian Law. In 1883 he was elected Stude-nt of Christ
Church, and was re-elected in 1890, 1897, and 1904. He
was nominated Public Examiner in the School of Law and
Modern History in 1863. In 1871 and in 1883 he was
nominated Public Examiner in the Honour School of
Modern History ; in 1887 in the Honour School of Oriental
Studies ; and in 1894 in the Modern Historical and Litera-
ture Group of the Pass School. He also privately in-
structed H.E.H. Prince Leopold, afterwards Duke of
Albany, in history, &c., in 1874-5. In 1866 he spoke at
the Church Congress at York on " Dogmatic Teaching
from the Pulpit."
Sidney James Owen is author of the following works : —
(i.) " Outlines of Modern History, Chiefly from the
French of M. Michlet. From the Middle of the
Fifteenth to that of the Sixteenth Century. With
Appendices on the Eise and Character of the Eeforma-
tion." Bombay. 1858.
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(ii.) " The Siege of Madras. A Lecture Delivered at
the Royal Institution, Woolwich." Printed at the
Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich. 1867. pp. 9
and plan.
(iii.) " Occasional Notes on British-Indian Subjects."
(Privately Printed.) Oxford : S. and E. Baxter. 1868.
pp. V. and 191.
(iv.) " The Mussulman, the Maratha, and the Euro-
pean. Two Introductory Lectures on the Rise of the
English Power in India." Oxford: Jas. Parker and
Co. 1869. pp. 67.
(v.) "The Story of Sivaji; the Pounder of the
Maratha Power. Public Lecture." (Printed Privately.)
Oxford. 1870.
(vi.) (Specimen.) " Lectures on India on the Eve of
the British Conquest." (Printed Privately.) Oxford.
1871.
(vii.) " India on the Eve of the British Conquest. A
Historical Sketch." London: Wm. H. Allen and Co.
1872. pp. viii. and 419.
(viii.) "Anglo-Indian Rule Historically Considered.
A Lecture Delivered at the Taylor Institution, April 28,
1876." (AVritten on the occasion of the agitation of the
Royal Titles Bill for the confemng on the Queen the
title of Empress of India.) Oxford : Jas. Parker and Co.
1876.
(ix.) " A Selection from the Despatches, Treatises, and
Other Papers of the Marquess of AVellesley, E.G., During
his Government of India. With an Appendix, a Map
of India, and Eight Plans of Battles and Sieges."
Oxford : At the Clarendon Press. 1877. pp. cxi. and
813.
(x.) " A Selection from the Despatches, Treatises, and
Other Papers Relating to India of Field-Marshal the
TtnkSoi Wellington, E.G." Oxford : At the Clarendon
Press. 1880.
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[The Introductory Essay on " Wellington in India "
lias been printed separately for private circulation.
pp. 79.]
S. J. Owen has contributed to " The English Historical
Review " the following articles : —
(i.) " Frangois Joseph Duplex." pp. 699— 733. No. 4.
October, 1883.
(ii.) "Benoit de Boigue." pp. 63—93. No. 9.
January, 1888.
(iii.) " Count Lally.'"' pp. 495—534. No. 23. July,
1891.
Also reviews of Holme's " History of the Indian
Mutiny," July, 1886 ; Trotter's " History of India Under
Queen Victoria," July, 1888; and Sir John Strachey's
" Hastings and the Eohilla War," April, 1893.
Immediately after their marriage, in 1856, Mr. and Mrs.
Owen sailed for Bombay. On their return to England, in
1858, they settled at Twyford, Avhere they remained till
1860. From 1860 to 1864 they lived in rooms in Oxford.
In March, 1864, they moved into a house in Norham Road,
No. 10, where they lived till 1872, when they moved to
Malabar House, now called 5, Bradmore Road.
Children of Sidney James Owen and Mary Ellen, his
wife : —
(1) Sidney George Owen. Born 2nd November, 1858,
at Twyford, Hants., and baptised there 11th December
following. Educated, first (1867—72), at the " Rookery,"
Headiugton, near Oxford, under the Rev. T. W. A. Taylor,
M.A. (Camb.),* then at Clifton College (1872—77), where,
after gaining scholarships in 1873 and 1874, he in 1876
won an Open Classical Exhibition at Balliol College, Ox-
ford, going into residence in October, 1877, and matricu-
lating 17th October. He held his exhibition from 1877 to
1^2. In June, 1880, he gained the Chancellor's Prize
* Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson, Bodley's Librarian, was an Assistant
Master at " The Rookery " at this time.
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for a Poem in Latin Verse, and on the 14tli of June, 1882,
the Chancellor's Latin Prize Essay. He proceeded B.A.
June, 1882, and M.A. 13th May, 1886. He took a Second
Class in Literis Graecis et Latinis, Trinity Term, 1879,
and a Second Class again in the school of In Literis
Humanioribus, Trinity Term, 1881. In September, 1882,
he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Classics at Owens
College, and Lecturer in Classics at the Victoria L'niversity,
Manchester, which posts he held till March, 1890. In the
summer term of 1890 Sidney George Owen returned to
Oxford, having been appointed the previous December
Classical Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He went
into residence in May, and at the same time took his name
oif the books of Balliol College. On March 12th, 1891, he
was elected an official student of Christ Church. He has
been Tutor of his College since 1891, and was Junior
Censor from 189G to 1901. In 1891 he examined for the
Hertford Scholarship at Oxford. He was pro-Proctor
1893—4.
S. G. Owen, besides being a constant contributor to the
" Classical Review,"* is author of the following works : —
(i.) Elizabetha Regina, post cladem Hispaniorum,
copias nictrices alloquitur. Carmen Latinum Cancel-
larii Praemio Donatum et in Theatro Sheldoniano Reci-
tatum. A.D.Y. Idus Jun MDCCCLXXX." Oxford:
Shrimpton. 1880. pp. 11.
(ii.) " Ad Litteras et Artes Graecorum quid contu-
lerint Aegyptii Oratio Cancellarii Praemio Donata et in
Theatro Sheldoniano Habita A.D. XVIII. Kal. Jul.
MDCCCLXXXII." Oxford: Shrimpton. 1882. pp.
42.
(iii.) "Ovid's Tristia. Book I. The Text Revised,
with an] Introduction and Notes." Oxford : At the
Clarendon Press. 1885. pp. Ixiv. and 115.
* He also contributed to the " English Historical Review" a transla-
tion of " A Mediaeval Latin Poem," July, 1887. No. 7, pp. 525, 526.
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(iv.) " P. Ovidi Nasonis Tristium Liber V. Resensuit.
S. G. Owen, A.M." Oxford : At the Clarendoa Press.
1888. pp. cxi. and 271.
(v.) " Ovid Tristia. Book III. Witli an Introduc-
tion and Notes." Oxford : At the Clarendon Press.
1889. pp. viii. and 77.
(vi.) " P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos, Liber X." For
the Use of Schools. London : Macmillan. 1890.
(vii.) " Catullus : With the Pervigilium Veneris.
Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin." London: Lawrence
and Bullen. 1893. pp. xiv. and 211.
(viii.) " Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoni-
ensis. A Persi. Flacci et D. Jvni Jv-\^enalis Satwae
cum additamentis Bodleianis recognovit brevique^ adno-
tatione critica instrvxit." Oxford : Clarendon Press.
1902. Not Paged.
(ix.) " Musa Clarda. Translations into Latin Elegiac
Verse. By S. G. Owen and J. S. Phillimore." 1898.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, pp. xiv. and G7.
(x.) ■' Thirteen Satires of Juvenal. Translated into
English." London : Methuen. 1903. pp. xix. and
120.
In 1891, 1902, and 1905 S. G. Owen delivered the
Bodleian Oration in the Convocation House at Oxford.
That for the year 1902 was printed in " The Oxford
Magazine " for November 19th of that year.
(2) Lucy O'Brien, eldest daughter of Sidney James
Owen, was born at Eose Hill, near Oxford, 11th November,
1860, and baptised at Bonchurch, 30th December follow-
ing. She, like all her sisters, was educated at home under
governesses. In June, 1882, she passed the first examina-
tion for women at Oxford. She had previously attended
lectures at Oxford on modern history. In March, 1888 she
gained a Third Class in Classical Moderations at Oxford.
In September, 1888, she was appointed Assistant Classical
Teacher at the Ladies College, Cheltenham, and in 1890,
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upon the resi^ation of Miss McLeanej'she became Head
Classical Teacher. This post she held till 189G, when
her heajth compelled her to resign. In the spring of
1902 she settled in Manchester, where she has since lived
with her brother, Mountague C. Owen.
(3) Henrietta O'Brien, second daughter of Sidney James
Owen, was born 3rd December, 1862, in High Street,
Oxford, and was baptised at St. Mary Magdalen, 22nd
January, 1863. In June, 1885, she passed the First
Examination for Women at Oxford. From 1885 to the
time of her marriage she had a preparatory school for boys,
which she carried on, with the help of her three younger
sisters, in her father's house in Oxford. She married,
Thursday, December 29th, 1892, at St. Michael's Church,
Oxford, Frederick Samuel Boas. The service was per-
formed by the Rev. William Walter Merry, D.D., Rector
of Lincoln College, assisted by the Rev. Andre-w Clark,
M.A., Yicar of the Parish, and Fellow of Lincoln College.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Boas have one child, Guy Hermann
Sidney, bom 9th December, 1896, and baptised at St.
Luke's, Bromley Common, 11th January, 1897. Mrs. F.
S. Boas is authoress of: —
(i.) "English History for Children." London: Jas.
Nisbet and Co. 1898. pp. viii. and 264.
(ii.) " In Shakspere's England." London: Jas. Nisbet
and Co. 1903. pp. viii. and 296.
(iii.) "With Milton and the Cavaliers." London:
Jas. Nisbet and Co. 1904. pp. viii. and 336.
Frederick Samuel Boas, bom at Belfast, 24th July, 1862,
is the eldest son of Hermann Boas, Merchant, of Lennox-
vale, Belfast, by Caroline, his wife, daughter of Benjamin
Spiers. He was educated at Clifton College (September,
1877 — July, 1881), of which he was a scholar, and matricu-
lated at Oxford in 1881, having gained, in 1880, an Open
Exhibition at Balliol College. In 1885 he gained the
Jenkins Exhibition at Balliol. In 1882 he gained a First
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Class in Classical Moderations ; in 1885 a First Class in the
Final Classical School; and in 188G a First Class in the
History Honour School. He proceeded B.A. in 1886, and
M.A. in 1889. From 1887 to 1901 he was Lecturer to the
Oxford University Extension Delegacy. In 1900 he was
appointed by the Crown Professor of History and English
Literature at Queen's College, Belfast, which post he
resigned in May, 1905. He was Librarian of Queen's
College, Belfast, from 1900 to 1905, and Fellow of the
Royal University of Ireland, 1901 to 1905. He has been
Additional Examiner in English to Edinburgh University
since 1903. In 1904 he was Clark Lecturer in English
Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was
appointed, 1st October, 1905, Divisional Inspector in Eng-
lish Language and Literature to the London County
Council.
Frederick S. Boas is author of: —
(i.) " Shakespere and His Predecessors." London:
Murray. 1890. pp. viii. and 555.
(ii.) "The Works of Thomas Kyd. Edited from the
Original Texts, with Introduction, Notes, and Fac-
similies." Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1901. pp. cxvi.
and 470.
(iii.) "Philaster; or Love Lies A Bleeding. By
Beaumont and Fletcher. Edited, with a Preface, Notes,
and Glossary." London: J. M. Dent and Co. 1898.
pp. xiv. and 134.
(iv.) "The Tempest. The Warwick Shakespere
Series." Edinburgh : Blackie and Son. pp. xxxii. and
127.
(v.) "Bussy D'Ambois and The Eevenge of Bussy
D'Ambois. By George Chapman. Edited, with an
Introduction and Life of George Chapman." London :
D. C. Heath and Co. 1905. pp. xlviii. and 380.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Boas lived from the time of their
marriage, until they removed to Belfast at Bickley, Kent;
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first at "Fairlee," and then at "Asolo," both in the Avenue.
Since their return to England, in the spring of 1905, they
have again settled at Bickley, and are now living there at
a house called " Cranford."
(4) Adelaide (Ada) O'Brien, third daughter of Sidney
James Owen, was bom at Norham Eoad, Oxford, 3rd July,
1864, and baptised at SS. Philip and James, 25th August
following. Since her sister, Mrs. Boas', marriage, she,
first in conjunction with her sisters, Isobel and Maggie,
and afterwards alone with Maggie, has carried on the pre-
paratory school started by her elder sister.
(5) Mary Isobel O'Brien, fourth daughter of Sidney
James Owen, was born at Norham Eoad, Oxford, 2nd
August, 186G, and baptised at SS. Philip and James, 7th
September following. In June, 1888, she passed the First
Examination for Women at Oxford. She has lived with
her brother, Edward Cunliffe Owen, at York since
September, 1900.
(G) Margaret Emily O'Brien, fifth daughter of Sidney
James Owen, was born at Xarham Road, Oxford, 2nd
August, 1880, and baptised at SS. Philip and James, 7th
September following. In June, 1889, she passed the First
Examination for Women at Oxford.
(7) Edward Cunliffe Owen, second son of Sidney James
Owen, was born at Norham Road, Oxford, 5th February,
18G9, and baptised at SS. Philip and James, 14th March
following. Educated, first (September, 1878 — December,
1882) at School House, Crick Road, Oxford, under the Rev.
A. G. Clarke, M.A., then at Haileyburj^ College (January,
1883 — July, 1887), where, after gaining a Scholarship in
1885, he in 1887 won an Open (" Abingdon " thrown open
for this time) Classical Scholarship at Pembroke College,
Oxford, going into residence in January, 1888. In Hilary
Term, 1889, he gained a Second Class in Classical
Moderations, and in July, 1891, a First Class in
the Final Classical School. He proceeded B.A.
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28th April, 1892, and M.A. 7tli July, 1894. In
1898 Edward Cunlifte Owea gained the Bishop
Jeune Memorial Prize Essay at Oxford. From May to
July, 1892, he was Assistant-Master at the Manchester
Grammar School. In 1893 he was appointed Assistant-
Master at King Edward the Sixth's School, Bromsgrove.
From 1895 to 1900 he was Chaplain of Bromsgrove School.
He was ordained Deacon, 9th June, 1895, and Priest, Slst
May, 189G, at Worcester Cathedral, both times by the
Bishop of the Diocese (Perowne).
Edward Cunliffe Owen was appointed in July, 1900,
Head Master of St. Peter's School, York, which claims to
be the oldest school in England, Alcuin being its reputed
founder. Under the government of the present Head
Master a new Science Block and Boarding House have been,
added, at a cost of nearly £10,000, and the school has
greatly increased in numbers. E. C. Owen has been a
member of the Court of the University of Leeds since
the foundation of the University, in 1904. He is
author of : —
(i.) " The Atonement Considered Particularly in its
Relation to the Theology of the XVIth Century. Being
the Bishop Jeune Memorial Prize Essay for 1890."
London : Seeley and Co. 1899. pp. 64.
(ii.) " ' In Memoriam.' Sermon Preached in St.
Peter's School Chapel, York, by the Head Master, on
Sunday, September 21st, 1902." pp. 6.
(8) Mountague Charles Owen, youngest son of Sidney
James Owen, was born at Bradmore Road, Oxford, 12th
April, 1872, and baptised at All Saints' Church, iSth May
following. He was educated, first (September, 1882—
July, 1885) at School House, Crick Road, Oxford, under
the Rev. A. E. Clarke, M.A., and then at the Whitgift
Grammar School, Croydon (September, 1886 — July, 1889).
In October, 1889, he entered Owens College, Manchester,
and matriculated at Victoria University, 12th December,
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1889. Wliilst at Owens College he lived at Hulme Hall,
but he left the College at the end of his first year.
In January, 1891, Mountague C. Owen entered the
business of Messrs. Absalom. Watkin and Son, Merchants
and Agents, of 1, Mount Street, Albert Square, Manchester,
now of 9, South Street, Manchester. In 1892 he became
a member of the Manchester Eoyal Exchange, and on 25th
September, 1900, was admitted a partner in the firm.*
Mountague C. Owen has been, since 1903, Hon. Secretary
of the Clergy Superannuation Fund for the Diocese of
Manchester, and was Sector's AYarden of St. Benedict's
Church, Ardwick, ^Manchester, from Easter, 1904, to
Easter, 1906.
• The <^ld firm of Absalom Watkin and Son was founded by Mr.
Absalom Watkin iv the year 1805. The late Sir Edward Watkin, Bart.,
Son of Mr. Absalom Watkin, was for a short time in the business.
The members of the firm at the time M. C. Owen was admitted a
partner were Mr. Alfred Watkin, J. P., grandson of the founder of the
firm, and Mr. Stephen Thornber Smith. Mr. Smith retired from the
firm 25th March, 1904.
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CHAPTER V.
Zbc IRev. XimiUiam Sewell, IRector ot Xittle
Sampfort), anb jFamilp.
William. Sewell, eldest son of Henry Sewell, of New-
Zealand, was born at Newport, 18tli November, 1836, and
baptised at St. Thomas', Newport, lOth January, 1837.
He was a scholar of Winchester College, and matriculated
at New College, Oxford, as a scholar, 30th May, 1856. He
was Fellow of his College from 1856 to 1878. In Easter
Term, 1858, he gained a Third Class in Classical Modera-
tions. He proceeded B.A. in 1860, and M.A. in 1863. He
was ordained Deacon in 1861, and Priest in 1862, both
times by the Bishop of Winchester (Sumner).
William Sewell was Curate of Kingsclere, Hants.,
1861—63; of Huntley, Gloucestershire, 1866—67; of
Totland Missionary Chapel, in the Parish of Freshwater,
Isle of Wight, 1869—71 ; and of Romford, Essex, 1875—78.
In 1878 he was presented by his College to the Rectory of
Little or New Sampford, Essex, which he held till his
death.
William Sewell is author of : —
" Drifting on the Lee Shore. The Wreck of the
Schooner Elizabeth Mary Ann, Tuesday, 11th January,
1887. A Sermon Preached at Sidmouth, 16th January,
1887."
William Sewell died at Taunton, 22nd December, 1896,
and was buried there, Thursday, 24th December following.
William Sewell married, 14th May, 1878, at Westfield,
near Hastings, Sussex, Elizabeth Gertrude, third daughter
of the Rev. Charles Vaughan, B.A., Rector of Llandevalley
and Crickadarn, Co. Brecon. They had issue : —
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(1) Charles William Henry Sewell, bom at Little Samp-
ford, ITtli April, 1879, and baptised tliere the following
June. Educated at Wimborne Grammar School (1893 —
1896), and at Exeter School (189&— 1897). Ho went to
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a Philpotts'
Exhibitioner in 1901, and the same year took his B.A.
He was at the Clergy Training School, Cambridge (1901—
1902). He was ordained Deacon, 28th September, 1902,
in Exeter Cathedral by the Bishop of the Diocese (Ryle),
and on 20th December, 1903, he was ordained Priest, also
in Exeter Cathedral, by the Bishop of the Diocese
(Robertson).
Charles W. H. Sewell was Curate of Swymbridge,
1902—1904 ; Chaplain and Clerical Secretary to the Bishop
of Exeter (Robertson), 1904—1905 ; and a Licensed
Preacher in the Diocese of Exeter, 1904. He is now Curate
of All Hallows-on-the- Walls and SS. John and George,
Exeter, to which post he was appointed in 1905.
(2) Reginald Yaughan Thomas Sewell, second son of the
Rev. AVilliam Sewell, was born 14th September, 1880, at
Little Sampford, and baptised there the following
November. He was at Wimborne Grammar School, and
afterwards (1896—1897) at Exeter School. From 1897 to
1900 he was articled to Mr. E. H. Howard, Architect, of
Wellington, Somersetshire. He has since been with Mr.
E. Lloyd Downes, Architect, of Newton Abbot.
(3) Florence Emily Eleanor, eldest daughter of the Rev.
AVilliam Sewell, was born 29th October, 1881, at Bourne-
mouth, and baptised there at St. Michael's Church the
following December.
(4) Violet Sybil Clare, youngest daughter of the Rev.
William Sewell, was born 28th Febraury, 1887, at Sid-
mouth, and baptised there at St. Nicholas' Church the
following April.
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CHAPTER VI.
Ibenrs Sewell, of tbe Sn^ian Civil Serx)ice,
aiiD jfamilg.
Henry Sewell, second son of Henry Sewell, of New
Zealand, was born at Pidford, Isle of Wight, 8th May,
1840, and baptised at St. George's, Arreton, the 7th June
following. He was educated at Radley College (January,
1848— July, 1858), and in 1858 gained a Classical Scholar-
ship at University College, Oxford, which he held till 1862.
In Michaelmas Term, 1860, he gained a Second Class in
Classical Moderations, and the same term a Second Class
in Mathematical Moderations. He proceeded B.A. in
1862, and M.A. in 1879.
Henry Sewell passed into the Madras Civil Service after
open competitive examination, and went out to India in
October, 1862. He served in Madras as Assistant-Magis-
trate and Collector; Acting Small Cause Court Judge;
Acting Under-Secretary to the Government in the Revenue
Department; and Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate.
From June, 1874, to April, 1875, he was Acting District
and Sessions Judge, North Arcot; from May, 1875, to
August, 1885, he was Collector and Magistrate at
Trichinopoly, and Political Agent at Pudukotta. In May,
1887, he was appointed Collector and Magistrate at South
Arcot. He retired from the Service in 1890, returning to
England in June of that year.
Whilst their father and mother were in India, Ada,
Edward, and Hilgrove Sewell had their home, first at Ash-
cliff, and afterwards with the Hawtreys at Nursling, and
Greycliif, Bonchurch. From October, 1890, to July, 1891,
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Henry Sewell and his family lived at Harrow ; since tken
they have lived at 56, Warmington Crescent, Maida Yale.
Henry Sewell has been for some years Hon. Secretary of
the Hospital and Home for Incurable Children, at Hamp-
stead.
He married, at St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, 12th
September, 1872, Sara Letham, eldest daughter of Edward
Eobe Bostock, of 48, Highbury Grove, and formerly of
Victoria.
Mrs. Henry Sewell (Sara Letham Bostock) was born 4th
April, 1852, at Jellalabar, Victoria, and baptised at War-
rambool Church, Victoria.
Children of Henry Sewell and Sara Letham, his wife : —
(1) Ada Lucy, born 9th January, 1874, at Vellore,
India; baptised at the Fort Church, Vellore, the 9th
February following. She was educated by her great-aunts
at Ashcliff, and afterwards by Mrs. Hawtrey. In 1895
she went to the Ladies College, Cheltenham. Whilst there
she resided at St. Hilda's.
(2) Henry Edward Sewell, born 24th July, 1875, at
Trichinopoly, India, and baptised there 8th September
following. Educated, first at the Rev. E. B. Bracken-
bury's Preparatory School at Bournemouth; then at
Winchester (September, 1888—1894), of which College he
was a scholar. In Michaelmas Term, 1894, he gained a
Scholarship at New College, Oxford. He took a Second in
Mathematical Moderations in Trinity Term, 1896, and a
Second in Literis Humanioribus in Trinity Term, 1898.
He proceeded B.A. Hilary Term, 1899.
After leaving Oxford, Edward Sewell was Assistant-
Master at the Edinburgh High School (November, 1899—
July, 1900), but in the latter year he gained a *' Univer-
sity's Commission " in the Army, and was gazetted Second
Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery, 28th May, 1900, and
Lieutenant, 15th January, 1902. Since 1905 he has been
in Mauritius.
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(3) Isabel Annie, bom Sth September, 1877, at Tricbia-
opoly, and baptised there 12th October following. She
died, 20th December, 1877, at Madras, and is buried there
in the Cathedral Cemetery.
(4) Louis Hilgrove Sewell, born 9th December, 1879, at
Bonchurch, and baptised there, 21st January, 1880.
Educated, first at the Isle of Wight College, Ryde
(September, 1890— July, 1893), afterwards at Haileybury
College (September, 1893—1897). He is a Civil Engineer,
and is now in India.
Hilgrove Sewell man-ied, at Bombay, 13th November,
1903, Alice Louise Bolton Ballard, daughter of Edward
Ballard, of Ashford, Kent.
(5) Hellen Edith, bom 11th August, 1892, at 38,
Portsdown Road, Maida Yale, W. She was baptised at St.
Saviour's Church, Paddington, 13th September, 1892.
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CHAPTER VII.
IRobert Buvleiob Sewell ant) 3Famil^»
Robert Burleigh Sewell, fifth son of Thomas Sewell, of
Newport, was born 21st September, 1809. He was educated
at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester, and was afterwards
articled to his father. He became a partner in the firm of
Sewells, Solicitors, of Newport, about the year 1833, upon
the retirement of Mr. Hearn. After their father's death
Henry and Robert Burleigh Sewell carried on the Newport
business. Henry retired from the firm in 1850, and Robert
Burleigh Sewell carried on the business, in partnership,
first with Mr. Estcourt, and afterwards with Mr. Estcourt
and Mr. Wake. R. B. Sewell retired from the firm in
18G0. From 18G0 to 1SG2 he was Steward of Radley
College, managing the finances for his brother William.
From the time of his leaving Radley up to the time of his
death he practised as a Solicitor at Yentnor. iVfter his
death the business was sold to Mr. Damant.
Till the death of his first wife, in 1849, R. B. Sewell lived
at a house called Milbrooke, between Newport and Caris-
brooke. He then lived in rooms at New]5ort, moving to
Radley College in 1860. From 1802 to the time of his
death he lived at Ashclif^, where his widow continued to
reside till her death, in 1877.
Robert Burleigh Sewell held the office of Mayor of New-
port in 1846. He was author of : —
(i.) " Saxea Pila Apud Devoniae Portum Constructa.*'
A Latin Prize Poem, published in " Musae Hydenses."
Winchester: Jacob and Johnson. 1828. Part I. pp.
107 to 113. [A.D., 1825, '" Hoc anno palmam tulit. R.
Eldridge ; secundus fuit. R. SeweU."]
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(ii.) " The Double Witness ; or the Real Consistency
of the Facts of Science with the Mosaic Cosmogony. A
Lecture." Ventnor: Knight and Son. 1868. pp. 42.
Robert Burleigh Sewell married, first, at the English
Ambassador's Church, Berne, Switzerland, 20th August,
1840, Marianne Billingsley, eldest daughter of the Rev.
George Turner Seymour, of Farringford House, Isle of
"Wight, by whom he had three children.
Mrs. Sewell (Marianne Billingsley Seymour) was born
at Long Ashton, Samerset, 1st January, 1815, and baptised
there. She was authoress of " Catechism of the History of
the Early Church in England and Wales, from the Founda-
tion to the Norman Conquest." London: Longmans.
1847. pp. 111. She died at Ryde, 16th July, 1849, and
was buried in the churchyard at Carisbrooke, 21st July
following.
Robert Burleigh Sewell married, secondly, at Bonchurch,
8th July, 1869, Eliza Isabella, daughter of the Rev.
Collingwood Foster Fenwick, Rector of Brooke, Isle of
AVight. By this marriage there were no children.
Mrs. Sewell (Eliza Isabella Femvick) was born 7th July,
1814, and died at Ashclilf, Bonchurch, 22nd November,
1877. She was buried beside her husband at Bonchurch.
Robert Burleigh Sewell died at Ashcliff, Bonchurch,
22nd March, 1872, and was buried there, in the churchyard
of the new church, 26th March.
Children of Robert Burleigh Sewell and Marianne
Billingsley, his wife : —
(1) Arthur Sewell. Born 14th October, 1841. Married,
14th August, 1876, Mary Lee, youngest daughter of Henry
Franks Waring. [See Page 66.]
(2) Emily, only daughter of Robert Burleigh Sewell.
Bom 26th August, 1843. Married, 13th May, 1868, the
Rev. Henry Courtenay Hawtrey. [See Page 69.]
(3) Robert Sewell, youngest son of Robert Burleigh
Sewell, was born at Milbrooke 4th June, 1845, and baptised
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at Carisbrooke, 17th July following. He was educated at
St. Peter's College, Radley. He was appointed to the
Madras Civil Service, after open competitive examination,
1866. He arrived in India, 19th December, 1868, and
served in Madras as Assistant-Collector and Magistrate;
Acting Sub-Secretary to the Board of Revenue; Acting-
Collector and Magistrate ; and Acting District and Sessions
Judge. He was on famine duty, October, 1877, and on
special duty in connection with the Archaeological Survey
of the Madras Presidency, January, 1881, and again
January, 1883. He was Sub-Collector and Joint Magis-
trate, Tinnevelly, September, 1884 ; acted as Collector and
Magistrate; and in September, 1888, was appointed
District and Sessions Judge, Kistna. In March, 1887, he
was elected a Fellow of Madras University. He retired
from the Service in December, 1894, when he returned to
England. He has since lived at G, Palace Mansions, Buck-
ingham Gate, S.W.
Robert Sewell is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society,
and has been a member of the Council at intervals since
1886. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,
of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Anthropological
Society of Bombay. He is author of: —
(i.) "The Analytical History of India from the
Earliest Times to the Abolition of the Honourable East
India Company in 1858." London : W. H. Allen and
Co. 1870. pp. xxviii. and 334.
(ii.) " A Report on the Amaravati Tope, and Excava-
tions on its Site in 1877. Printed by Order of the
Secretary of State for India in Council, 1880."
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. pp. 69.
(iii.) " Chronological Tables for S. India, from the 6th
Century A.D. Published Under Orders of the Madras
Government in 1881."
(iv.) " Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presi-
dency of Madras. Compiled under the Orders of the
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Government." [Being Volume I. of the Archaeological
Survey of S. India ] Madras : E. Keys. 1882. pp. 316
and Ixii.
(v.) " A Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India.
Compiled by Order of the Government." Madras : E.
Keys. 1883. pp. 132.
(vi.) " Lists of Inscriptions and Sketch of the
Dynasties of Southern India. Compiled Under the
Orders of the Government." [Being Volume II. of the
Archaeological Survey of S. India.] Madras : E. Keys.
1884. pp. xi. and 297.
(vii.) " Catalogue and Plates of Sir Walter Elliot's
'Coins of S. India.'" [Being Volume III., Part II., of
the International Numismata Orientalia.]
(viii.) " Miscellaneous Notes of the Late Sir Walter
Elliot." Published in the " Imperial and Asiatic
Quarterly Review," January, 1891. Separately Printed
for Private Circulation.
(ix.) Published in Conjunction with Pandit S. B.
Dikshit, " The Indian Callendar, with Tables of Solar
Eclipses" by Dr. R. Schram.
(x.) " India Before the English. Two Lectures Read
Before the East India Association."
(xi.) " Sir Walter Elliot, of Wolfelce. A Sketch of
His Life, and a Few Extracts from His Notebooks."
Printed for Private Circulation. Edinburgh. 189G. pp. 83.
(xii.) " Some Points in the Archaeology of Southern
India." [Prepared for the Eleventh International Con-
gress of Orientalists, held at Paris, 1897.] London:
Bickers and Son. 1897. pp. 18. Published in French
by Ernest Lerouse, Paris.
(xiii.) " A Forgotten Empire. [Vijayanagar.] A
Contribution to the History of India." London : Swan,
Sonnenschein. 1900. pp. xxii. and 426.
(xiv.) '■ Eclipses of the Moon in India. From 300
A.D. to 1900."
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(xv.) Editor of Mrs. H. C. Hawtrey's " India and the
West in Old Days," a Translation of a Paper by Pro-
fessor AlbrecKt Weber. 1888.
(xvi.) Edited the Late W. S. Krishnaswami Nayudu'a
" South Indian Chronological Tables. Published by
Order of the Government of Madras, 1889."
Robert Sewell contributed to the " Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society" the following Papers: —
" Some New Discoveries in South India." 1884.
" Early Buddhist Symbolism." 1886.
" Buddhist Remains at Guntupalle." 1887.
" Further Notes on Early Buddhist Symbolism." 1888.
" Some Buddhist Bronzes and Relics of Buddha."
1895.
" Roman Coins Found in India." 1904.
To the " Indian Antiquary " he contributed : —
" Two Eastern Chalukyan Copperplates." 1879.
" Notes on the Swastika." 1881.
And to the " Proceedings of the Society of Biblical
Archaeology " he contributed : —
" Tiles from Mycenae, with the Cartouche of
Amenketep. III." 1904.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Ubc IRep. Bi'tbur Sewell anb jfaintly.
Arthur SeAvell, eldest son of Eobert Burleigh Sewell, of
Newport, Isle of Wight, was born at Milbrooke, 14th
October, 1841. He was baptised, privately, at Milbrooke,
and received into the Church, at Carisbrooke, November
27th, 1841. He was educated at St. Peter's College,
Eadley. On the 29th January, 18G2, he matriculated at
New College, Oxford, having gained a Choral Scholarship,
which he held from 18G2 to 186G. He proceeded B.A. in
1866, and M.A. in 1868. He was ordained Deacon in 1866,
and Priest in 1868, both by the Bishop of Worcester.
The Rev. Arthur Sewell has been Chaplain of the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem since 1871. He was Assistant-
Master at Malvern College from 1866 to 1871. Partner
with Mr. E. E. C. Hays at Southleigh School, Malvern,
from 1871 to 1873. From 1873 to 1878 he had a boys'
school at Litchford Hall*, Higher Blackley, near Man-
chester. From 1878 to 1888 he was Principal of Waterloo
House School, Leamington ; and from 1888 to 1905 Head
Master of Weymouth College Preparatory School. He
was appointed Curate of Melcombe Eegis, Dorset, in 1896.
Since 19U5 he has been Curate of Barwick and Holy
Trinity, Hendford.
He is author of " Thoughts for Schoolboys." 1884.
The Eev. Arthur Sewell married, at St. John's Church,
Eedland, near Bristol, 14th August, 1876, Mary Lee,
* Litchford Hall, a good-sized house, built of red brick about the
end of the Eighteenth Century, by one of the Alsopp family, stands
in fairly large grounds a mile and a half north of Higher Blackley.
It was in this house that Dr. William Sewell died in 1874. It is now
a Roman Catholic Penitentiary.
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youngest daughter of Henry Franks Waring, of South-
cliit'e, Lyme Eegis, Dorsetshire, by Catherine Mary, his
wife, nee Rankin.
Mrs. Arthur Sewell was bom, 8th October, 1851, at
Southcliii'e, Lyme Eegis.
Children of the Eev. Arthur Sewell : —
(1) Cecil Arthur Seymour Sewell. Bom at Litchford
Hall, 5th July, 1878. Baptised at St. Boniface's Church,
Bonchurch, 14th August following. Educated,, first at the
Weymouth College Preparatory School, and afterwards at
Weymouth College, where he gained an Entrance Scholar-
ship in 1892. In 1897 he gained a Classical Scholarship
at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. He took his B.A.
degree in 1900, having the same year gained a Third Class
in the Classical Tripos. Since 1905 he has been Assistant-
Master in the King's College, Bankok, Siam.
(2) Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell. Born at Water-
loo House, Leamington, 5th March, 1880. Baptised, in
the Parish Church, Leamington, 28th March following.
Educated, first at the We3^mouth College Preparatory
School, then at Weymouth College, where he gained an
Entrance Scholarship in 1894. He has had a distinguished
career at Cambridge, as the following list of his achieve-
ments will shew: — IS^atural Science Exhibitioner at
Christ's College, Cambridge, 1898. Natural Science
Scholarship at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1900. He
gained Science Prizes in 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903. First-
class Natural Science Tripos, Part I., 1902. Bachelor
Scholarship and Porteous Gold Medal, 1902. First Class
in Anatomy and Physiology in the Natural Science Tripos,
Part II., 1903. Research Scholarship, 1903. Junior
Demonstrator in Anatomy and Physiology in the
University of Cambridge, 1903. Darwin Research Prize,
1904. Fellow of the Anthropological Institute, 1904.
Shuter Scholarship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London,
1905. He took his B.A. degree at Cambridge in 1902,
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and passed his first examination for tlie Fellowship of the
Royal College of Surgeons in 1905.
(3) Frederick Alexander Seymour Sewell. Born at
Waterloo House, Leamington, 6th October, 1881. Baptised
in the Parish Church, Leamington, 1st November, 1881.
Educated, first at Weymouth College Preparatory School,
then at Weymouth College, where he gained an Entrance
Scholarship in 1896. In 1899 he gained a Classical Exhi-
bition at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. He took his
B.A. in 1902, graduating Third Class in the Classical
Tripos. He has been Senior Classical Master in the
Grammar School, Wellingborough, since 1902.
(4) Dorothy Serena Elizabeth. Born at Waterloo
House, Leamington, iOth February, 1886. Baptised in
the Parish Church, Leamington. Educated at the Ladies'
College, Cheltenham.
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CHAPTER IX.
Zbc Ibawtrei? JSraitcb.
Emily, only daughter of Eobert Burleigli Sewell, was
born at Milbrooke, 26th August, 1843, and baptised at
Carisbrooke Cliurcli, 4tli October following. She married,
at Bonchurch, 13th May, 18G8, the Rev. Henry Courtenay
Hawtrey, M.A.
Henry Courtenay Hawtrey was the youngest son of the
Eev. John Hawtrey, Minister of St. James', Guernsey, and
afterwards Eector of Kingston Seymour, Somerset. He
was born 18th February, 1820, and was educated, like most
of the Hawtreys, at Eton College. He afterwards went to
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and proceeded B.A. in
1844, and M.A. in 1847. He was ordained Deacon in 1844,
and Priest in 1847. He was Eector of Holy Trinity,
Windsor, and Acting Chaplain to the Forces from 1852 to
1873. From 1873 to 1889 he was Eector of Nursling,
Hants.
In 1877 Mr. Hawtrey met with an accident, and cut hia
hand when tidying to save a lamp from falling, as one of
his little boys ran against the table and shook it. A
fortnight after lockjaw came on, and at one time his life
was despaired of. But he recovered, although he has
remained more or less of an invalid ever since, and it was
on account of his health that he gave up his living in 1889.
Latterly, until her death in October, 1905, he lived with
his youngest sister, Miss Florence Hawtrey, at Windsor.
The Eev. H. C. Hawtrey died at Windsor, 13th May, 1906.
Upon her husband having to give up his living, Mrs.
Hawtrey started a girls' school, which she carried on, first
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by herself, and afterwards with the aid of iher eldest
daughter, at Greycliff, Bonchurch. Later, the school was
moved to Hawthorn. Dene, Bonchurch. Mrs. Hawtrey died
10th May, 1901, and was buried in the churchyard at Bon-
church.
Mrs. Hawtrey published: —
(i.) " India and the West in Old Days. By Professor
Albrecht Weber. Translated from the German by
Emily Hawtrey. Edited by Robert Sewell." Madras :
G. W. Taylor. 1887. pp. 27.
(ii.) " Outline History of Germany." London: Long-
mans. 189{). pp. vi. and 3G0.
Children of the Rev. Henry Courtenay Hawtrey and Mrs.
Hawtrey : —
(1) Gilbert Henry Courtenay Hawtrey. Born, at
Windsor, Sth June, 18G9. Baptised at Holy Trinity
Church, Windsor, 4th July following. Educated at St.
Mark's School, AVindsor. He matriculated at St. Edmund
Hall, Oxford, 18th October, 1888, and took his B.A. in
1891. He is now an Assistant-Master at St. Paul's School,
Concord, America.
(2) Margaret Elizabeth Courtenay (Daisey). Bom 15th
November, 1870, and baptised at Holy Trinity Church,
Windsor, 18th Decem]>er following. She has a girls'
school at Eastbourne.
(3) Seymour Henry Coleridge Hawtrey. Born 9th
January, 1872, and baptised at Holy Trinity Church,
Windsor, 8th February following. He is now in South
America, He married, at Colyton, Devonshire, January
, Maude, daughter of Roberts, of Yeovil,
Estate Agent. They have issue two daughters : —
(1) Joan. Born 18th November, 1903.
(2) Ursula. Born March, 1905.
(4) Wilfrid Robert John Hawtrey. Born 22nd
Eebruary, 1875. Baptised at St. Boniface's Church,
Nursling. He was educated at Weymouth College, where
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he gained a Scholarship in 1890. He is now Assistant-
Superintendent of Police in Penang. He married, June,
1902, Irene, daughter of — Allan. Mr. Allan is
a large landowner in Penang. "Wilfrid Robert J. Hawtrey
has one daughter : —
Valentine Courtenay. Born 4th March, 1904.
(5) Ralph Osmond Hawtrey. Born at Nursling, 27th
February, 1878. Educated at Lancing College. He
married, at Camborne, Cornwall, September, 1904, Emily,
daughter of Dranch. They have issue one
boy: —
Rafe Courtenay Hawtrey. Born 25th July, 1905.
(6) Winifrid Emily Dprothea. Born at Lausanne, 14th
November, 1879. She married, at St. Peter's Church,
Eastbourne, 29th April, 1903, John Marsden Whitehead,
son of Dr. John L. Whitehead, of Yentnor, Isle of Wight.
(7) Henry Courtenay Hawtrey. Born 29th June, 1882.
Educated, first at Weymouth College Preparatory School,
under the Rev. Arthur Sewell, then at Mr. Edward
Hawtrey's School at Westgate-on-Sea. In 1897 he gained
a Scholarship at Uppingham. He was afterwards at St.
Mark's, Windsor. Second-Lieutenant Royal Engineers,
10th August, 1900. Lieutenant, 18th August, 1903.
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CHAPTER X.
TTbe Ibanburp 3Brancb.
Frances, third daughter of the Rev. William Sewell,
Hector of Headley, was bom 7th May, 1773, and baptised
at Headley the 16th of May following. She married,
about 1811, Samuel Hanbm-y, and died in 18G5. She is
buried at Nunhead Cemetery.
Samuel Hanbury was the eldest son of Joseph Hanbury.
He was born August, 1771. He was a member of the
London Stock Exchange, and resided, first at Camberwell,
and afterwards at 9, Judd Place, East Marylebone. He
died April, 1853, and was buried in Nunhead Cemetery,
where is a monument to his memoiy.
Samuel Hanbury had two children : —
(1) William Hanbury. Died 27th October, 1812, aged
three weeks. Buried in the churchyard at Carisbrooke,
1st November following.
(2) Thomas James Hanbury. Born 22nd January,
1814, of whom below : —
Thomas James Hanbury, second son of Samuel and
Frances Hanbury, was born, as stated above, 22nd January,
1814. He was educated at Eugby, where he entered the
school on 21st January, 1828, the same year in which Dr.
Arnold became Head Master. T. James Hanbury, he was
always called by the name of James, lived a very roving
life, and in later years joined the Roman Catholic Church.
He died, 4th October, 1887. He married, 20th July, 1843,
at St. Pancras' Church, London, Emma Lydia, daughter of
Richard Parioh Witts, of Sudbuiy, Suffolk. Emma Lydia
Hanbury (Witts) was born 17th August, 1815, and died at
Bournemouth in the spring of 1905. She was buried at
Bournemouth.
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Children of Thomas James and Emma Lydia Han-
bury : —
(1) Charles de Witt Hanbury. Born 26th January,
1845. He is an Architect, and is at present residing at
Leeds. He married, firstly, 30th May, 1871, at St. James',
Hatcham, London, Georgiana Caroline, daughter of
Jeremiah Charles Marshall. She died in 1883. He
married, secondly, 30th April, 1892, Emma Jackson, eldest
daughter of James P. Bath, of 248, Upper Parliament
Street, Liverpool.
By his first wife Charles de Witt Hanbuiy has three
children : —
(i.) Ellen Mary Gertrude, commonly called Nelly,
born 11th May, 1872, at Hatcham, London.
(ii.) Emily Frances Jane, commonly called Fanny,
born 2nd March, 1873, at Sneinton, Notts.
(iii.) Katharine Mabel, born 9th May, 1876, at Peck-
ham, London.
(2) Emma Gertrude Elvira, eldest daughter of Thomas
James Hanbury. Born 3rd April, 1846. She formerly
lived at 16, Chivaley Road, AVandsworth Common, but
now lives at Bournemouth.
(3) William Frederick James Hanbury, second son of
Thomas James Hanbury, was born 10th November, 1847.
He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. B.A.
1872, M.A. 1878. He was ordained Deacon in 1873, and
Priest in 1874, both by the Bishop of Chester. He was
Chaplain of H.M. schooner-frigate Conway from 1873 to
1875 ; Curate of Bicknor, Kent, from 1875 to 1877 ; Curate
of Shepperton, Middlesex, from 1878 to 1882; Rector of
St. Cyprian, Kimberley, Cape Colony, from 1882 to 1884 ;
and Curate of Chieveley, Berks., from 1886 to 1889. Since
1889 he has been Vicar of Swanmore, Isle of AVight. The
Rev. William Frederick James Hanbury married, in 1875,
Marian Layman.
(4) James Augustus Sewell Hanbury, youngest son of
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Thomas James Hanbury, was born 1st June, 1851. He ia
in business at 39a, New Street, Birmingham. He married,
in 1875, Constance Marie Davidee Sarah, daughter of
James Alexander. She was born 25th December, 1854.
Children of James Augustus Sewell Hanbury : —
(i.) Frances Constance. Born 21st February, 1876.
(ii.) Bartholomew George. Born 24th August, 1877.
(iii.) Gertrude Mary. Born 17th April, 1879.
(iv.) Edith Johanna. Born 2nd October, 1880.
(v.) Clement Augustus. Born 29tJi December, 1881.
(vi.) Einma Beatrice. Born 7th September, 1883.
(5) Frances Ellen Blanche. Born 2nd December, 1852.
Married, 20th December, 1880, the Rev. Theophilus Barton
Eowe, M.A. They have one child, John Hanbury Rowe,
born 8th August, 1890. He is now a scholar of Win-
chester College.
The Rev. Theophilus Barton Rowe was educated at St.
John's College, Cambridge. B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859. He
was Chancellor's Medalist, 31st Wrangler, and 3rd Classic.
He was ordained a Deacon by the Bishop of Bath and
Wells in 1859, and a Priest by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury in 1879. He was a Fellow of St. John's College,
Cambridge, from 1858 to 18G1 ; Curate of Bathampton,
Somerset, from 1859 to 1861 ; Assistant-Master at Upping-
ham School from 1861 to 1875; and Head Master of Ton-
bridge School from 1875 to 1890. He died at Bourne-
mouth, 13th January, 1905. The Rcy. Theophilus Barton
Rowe was author of "A Sixth Form Greek Syntax.
Interleaved. 1889." His w4dow n;ow lives at Bourne-
mouth.
(6) Ada Isabella, youngest daughter of Thomas James
Hanbury, was born 26th December, 1855. She has great
artistic talent, and designs many Christmas cards. She
now lives with her sister at Bournemouth.
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CHAPTER XI. . -;
Ube Descen&ants of Jacob Sewell, ot Carlatton,
Guinberlant).
Jacob Sewell, second son of Thomas Sewell, of Cumrew,
and younger brother of the Rev. "William Sewell, Rector
of Headley, was baptised at Cumrew, 25th March, 1723.
He was a farmer, and resided at Carlatton, Cumberland.
He was buried at Cumrew, 4th May, 17G5. He married
Ann . (After Jacob Sewell's death his wife married
Thomas Penrith.) Jacob Sewell had issue: —
. (1) Thomas. Born 1st October, 1754. For whose
descendants see the " Sewells of Steephill Castle."
(2) John Sewell. Born 25th November, 175G. Bap-
tised at Cumrew, 5th December following.
■ (3) William Sewell. Born 21st October, 17G0. Of
whom below,
• (i.) Elizabeth. Born 6th February, 1753. Baptised
at Cumrew, 4th March following. She married
Moses.
• (ii.) Mary. Born 21st May, 1759. Baptised at
Cumrew, 22nd May following. She married
Nichol.
• (iii.) Peggy (Margaret). Bom 11th April, 1765.
Baptised 15th April (?) following, at Cumrew.
AVilliam Sewell. Born 21st October, 1760, at Carlatton.
A farmer, of Sleet Beck, Bewcastle, Cumberland. He
died at Sleet Beck, 2nd July, 1835, and was buried at Bew-
castle, 5th July following. He married Deborah Fisher.
She was bom at Cumwhitton, 29th September, 1768, and
died 8th December, 1839. She was buried at Bewcastle,
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lltb December following. William and Deborah Sewell
had issue: —
(1) Thomas Sewell. Born 22nd November, 1785.
Died unmarried. Thomas, Jacob, Jane, and Esther
Sewell resided at the farm of Sleet Beck for 33 years.
(2) Jacob Sewell. Born 12th December, 1789. Bap-
tised at Cumrew, 21st January, 1790. Died unmarried.
(3) John Sewell. Born 17th February, 1792. Bap-
tised at Cumrew 24th February following. He married
Graham, and had issue : —
(i.) Wiliam Sewell. Born 1833. Died 16th
January, 1844. Buried at Bewcastle 18th January
following.
(ii.) William Sewell. Died before 1892. He
married, and, besides two daughters, Annie and
Emma, had a son, William, who was drowned about
1879.
(4) William Sewell. Born 7th September, 1803.
Baptised at Cumrew, Gth October following. Died un-
married.
(i.) Ann. Born 22nd September, 1787. Married
lloutledge. They had issue : —
(1) William Routledge. Died unmarried.
(2) Thomas Routledge. Died unmarried.
(3) John lloutledge.
(i.) Jane.
(ii.) Tamer.
(iii.) Deborah. Died unmarried.
(iv.) Elizabeth. Died unmarried,
(ii.) Elizabeth. Born 24th July, 1795, and baptised
at Cumrew, 17th August following. She married James
Telford. They had issue.: —
(1) James Telford. Died before 1892. He left
a family.
(2; Jacob Telford. Died before 1892.
(3) William Telford. Died before 1892.
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(4) Thomas Telford,
(i.) Deborah. Died before 1892.
(ii.) Jane. Died before 1892. She married,
and left a son.
(iii.) Tamer. Born 29th December, 1797. Baptised
at Cumrew, according to the registers, 4th December,
1796, but there must be some error here. She married
Arthur Forrester. Arthur and Tamer Forrester had
issue: —
(1) Arthur Forrester. In Australia.
(2) Robert Forrester. Died before 1892. He
was married, and left a widow, who was living in
1892 in Scotland Boad, Stanwix, Carlisle.
(i.) Mary Ann. Died before 1892. Married, and
left a family.
(ii.) Jane. \
(iii.) Margaret. \ Two of these are in Australia,
(iv.) Tamer. I
(iv.) Mary. Born 23rd December, 1799. Baptised
at Cumrew 30th December following. She married
Robert Ousby, and had issue: —
(1) "William Ousby. A Commercial Traveller.
Died about 25th February, 1872. Buried at Ard-
wick Cemetery, Manchester. He married, and had
issue one daughter : —
Mary Elizabeth. Married at the Parish
Church, Stretford, near Manchester, 29th April,
1888, Frank Atkinson Butler, Art Pottery De-
signer, formerly of Peckham, now of Catford,
Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson have issue a
daughter, Beatrice Lilian. Born 7th Novem-
ber, 1889.
(2) Isaac Ousby. Farmer, of Talkin Mitton, near
Carlisle. Married* but has no family.
(i.) Deborah.
(ii.) Elizabeth. Died, unmarried, before 1892.
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(iii.) Mary Ann.
(v.) Jane. Born 15tli March, 1801. Baptised at
Cumrew 14tli April following. Died unmarried.
(vi.) Esther. Born 15th July, 1805. Baptised at
Cumrew 9th August following. Died at 16, Scotland
Road, Stanwix, Carlisle, 2nd May, 1891. Buried at
Carlisle Cemetery, 5th May following. She had issue
one son: —
Jacob Sewell, of 16, Scotland Road, Stanwix,
Provision Merchant, of the firm of Noble and Sewell,
of Carlisle. He married Margaret Lindsley, and
has issue : —
(1) William Sewell.
(2) Thomas Sewell.
(3) Arthur Sewell.
(4) Henry Sewell.
(5) Charles Edward Sewell. Died before
1892.
Jane Ettie.
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CHAPTER XII.
Tlbe SewcUs, ot Steepbill Gastle, Dentnor,
5sle ot Miobt.
^ Thomas Sewell was the eldest son of Jacob Sewell,
of Carlatton, Cumberland. He lived at Haslemere,
Surrey, and also owned property at Shap, AVestmorland.
Lieutenant in Militia 1789 ; Captain 1796. Born 1st
October, 1754. Baptised at Cumrew 7th October follow-
ing. Died 10th October, 1805. Married Mary Close.
Thomas and Mary Sewell had issue : —
(1) James Thomas SeAvell. Born at Shap, 23rd
January, 1789. Baptised at Shap, 2Gth January follow-
ing.
(2) William Sewell. Born 10th October, 1801, of
whom presently.
Elizabeth. Born at Haslemere, 8th May, 1795. Bap-
tised at Headley, Hants., 11th Januaiy, 1796. She
married Walton. Her brother, William, gave
the Shap property to her, and it still remains in the
Walton family.
William Sewell owned property at Shap. He went to
Jamaica, where he m?de a fortune. Born at Haslemere,
10th October, 1801. Baptised at Haslemere. Died in
Jamaica, 7th October, 1872. He married Mary .
William and Mary Sewell had issue: —
(1) William Sewell. Born 1836. Died young.
(2) Henry Sewell, of Steephill Castle, of whom pre-
sently.
Elizabeth. Born 26th March, 1831. Married, first,
Simon Thomson (who died in 1884). She married,
secondly, IGth December, 1895, Dr. Gottburg.
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Henry Sewell, of Steephill Castle, Yentnor, Isle of
Wight. Born 28th May, 1838. He sold Steephill Castle
a few years ago, and went to Jamaica. Married, 2nd
March, 1869, Margaret Crowther, of Carlisle (she was born
7th June, 1845). Henry and Margaret Sewell have
issue : —
(1) Harry Percy Sewell. Born 12th January, 1875.
Educated at Harrow.
(2) Arthur Victor William. Born 8th July, 1878.
Educated at Harrow.
(3) Horace Somerville. Bom 10th February, 1881.
(i.) Alice Maud Mary. Born 7th October, 1870.
(ii.) Beatrice Noelins. Bom 13th December, 1876.
(iii.) Elizabeth Anesta. Bom 1st September, 1879.
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PART 11.
TLbc BurleiGb family.
In a copy of Worsley's " History of the Isle of Wight,"
at Ashcliff, is a MS. note in the handwriting of Richard
Clarke. It is as follows : — " I have often heard Colonel
Burleigh say that his family was descended from Willm.
Burley, of Bromscroft Castle, in Salop, Esq. His father
chose to alter the spelling of his name to the way the
family has ever since spelt it for no reason, as I ever heard ;
hut that he did so I am certain, as I saw in the Parish
registers of St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, of which
parish he was Minister many years, and I have seen the
name altered with different coloured ink in more places
than one, but in Avhat year I cannot say nor remember."*
A pedigree of the Burle^-s of Bromcroft Castle, Shropshire,
is given in " Tn ichol's Topographer and Genealogist," Vol.
III., page 48G. It commences with Sir John Burley, who
witnessed the will of King Edward III., but the male line
seems to have become extinct some time in the 15th
century, for Sir John Burley, of Bromcroft Castle, " learned
in the law," and who was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1409,
left only two daughters, who are put down as co-heirs. No
William Burley appears in the pedigree; perhaps he
belonged to a younger branch of the family. It is curious
that the Clarkes and Sewells, who afterwards produced so
many lawyers, should claim an ancestor " learned in the
law " so far back as 1409.
The name seems to have been spelt Burleigh or Burley
indiscriminately at an earlier date than that at which
P.ichard Burleigh, Eector of St. Lawrence, lived, as will
be seen from the inscription on the monument to Anthonie
*The early registers of St. Lawrence are lost; those in the Church
-at present only commence in 1738.
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Burleigh, quoted below; Anthonie Burleigh having died
in 1681.
It is probable that the Isle of Wight Burleys are de-
scended from the family of that name settled at Potterne,
Co. Wilts., one of whom, AVilliam Burley, was living at
Longparish, Hants., in 1575. Pedigrees of this family
will be found in Sir T. Phillip's " Visitatio Comitatus
Wiltoniae " and " Hampshire Visitations."
In the copy of Worsley's " History of the Isle of Wight,"
already referred to, is a note in the handwriting of Eichard
Clarke : — " Capt. Burleigh was of the Ancestry of my late
Mother." John Burleigh was one of the first Chief
Burgesses named in the charter of King James to the
Borough of Yarmouth. This Captain John Burley be-
longed, according to Clarendon, to a good family in the
Isle of Wight. He was Captain of the Antelope.
Clarendon states that, being put out of his command
when the fleet rebelled against the King, he joined the
army, in which he became a General of Ordnance. At the
end of the war he took up his residence in the Isle of
AVight, and, unable to control his indignation when the
King entered Newport a prisoner, caused a drum to be
beaten to gather a force to rescue him from Carisbrooke
Castle. Burley was tried at Winchester, though they had
to send to London for a jury, as no one in Hampshire could
be found to serve, so respected was he in the county. He
was, nevertheless, condemned to death, and was hung,
drawn, and quartered at Winchester, 2Gth January, 1647.
In Lambeth Parish Church is an inscription which runs
as follows : —
" In memorie of Antonie Burleigh, third sonne of John
Burleigh, late of the Isle of Wight, Esq., who was Lieu-
tenant-General to King Charles the First, of blessed
memorie ; and was putt to death at Winchester, the 26th
January, 1647, for endeavouring to release his sacred
Majesty, then prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle, in the said
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Isle of Wight. His two elder brothers, were slaia at
Worcester fight, in the forces of his present Majesty King
Charles the Second; this being the last of that loyall
family, except his truly loving and sorrowful sister, who
caused this monument to be erected. Obiit 17 die Feb.
anno D'ni 1681, ietatis suae 48. spe resurgendi."*
One of these brothers here mentioned was Captain
Barnabas Burley, whose wife's name was Agnes, but the
name of the other son of Captain John Burley, who was
slain at Worcester, I have been unable to ascertain. There
was also an older son of Captain John Burlej^ Marvin
Burley,t who was the first to be buried at Yarmouth
Church. Edmund Burley, of Potterne, Co. Wilts., had
married a Marwyn, probably accounting for the unusual
name of Marvin.
The Burleighs of Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim (see Burke's
" Landed Gentry "), claim descent from Capt. William
Burleigh, who is stated to have been a son of Capt. John
Burleigh. It is also stated that this Capt. Burleigh or
Burley was imprisoned at Winchester, but managed to
escape to Ireland, but there seems to be no proof of this.+
Was William Burleigh, the ancestor of the Carrickfergus
Burleighs, one of the sons of Capt. John Burley, who were
stated to have been killed at Worcester? And did he
escape from AVorcester fight? But this is merely conjec-
ture. Below I give the pedigree of our Burleighs, as far
as I have been able to trace it consecutively : —
Thomas Burley (or Burleigh), matriculated at Christ
Church, Oxford, 23rd July, 1G56. B.A. Eector of Chilton
*See Manning and Bray's "History of Surrey." Ed. 18U. There
is an account of Capt. John Burley in the " Dictionary of National
Biogi-aphy," where the date of Burley's execution is given as 10th
February, 1648.
tSir John Oglander's "Memoirs." Yarmouth Church was conse-
crated in 1626. The registers at Yarmouth only commence in 1679.
Oglander mentions Mabell, daughter of Capt. John Burleigh, living
1634, who married Thomas Worsley.
:;See "The AVolfee of Forenaghts," by Lieut. -Colonel R. T. Wolfe,
page 71.
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Candover, Hants., 1GG5. Rector of Kingston, Isle of
Wight, 1670—1682. Married Elizabeth, daughter of .
They had issue: — One daughter, Elizabeth, born 26th
February, and baptised 6th March, 1669 — 70; and one
son, Eichard Burley (pr Burleigh), born 2nd September,
1071, and baptised at Kingston, September 12th. B.A. Oriel
College, Oxford, 1693. Matriculated at Cambridge, 1709.
M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, 1709. Rector of
St. Lawrence, Isle of "Wight, 1694. Rector of Chale, 1709.
Rector of Brown Candover, Hants., 1709. He lived at
Godshill, Isle of Wight. He was buried at Chale, 12th
August, 1734. He married, first, Lydia, daughter of .
She died 11th November, 1717, aged 40. He married,
secondly, 18th August, 1726, at St. Paul's Cathedral,
Elizabeth Davis, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, widow. By
his lirst wife the Rev. Richard Burley had issue : —
(1) Robert Burleigh. Born c. 1679. M.A. Oriel
College, Oxford. In Holy Orders. Buried at Chale,
11th January, 1732.
(2) Thomas Burley (or Burleigh). Baptised at Gods-
hill, 21st January, 1698. Buried at Chale, 26th August,
1729.
(3) Richard Burley (or Burleigh). Baptised at Gods-
hill, 21st April, 1700. Married Mary, daughter of David
Worsley, of Stenbur}'-, Isle of Wight, of whom presently.
(4) William Burleigh. Baptised at Godshill, 16th
October, 1704. M.A. Oriel College, Oxford. Rector of
Chilton Candover. Buried at Chilton Candover,
18th June, 1766. Married, at St. Paul's Cathedral, 8th
June, 1736, Elizabeth, daughter of ^ Hodgson, of
St. George's, Hanover Square. They had issue: —
Richard ]3urleigh. Born 11th June, 1741.
Baptised at Chilton Candover, 12th July following.
M.A. Queen's College, Oxford. Rector of Chilton
Candover. Died 21st January, 1798; buried at
Chilton Candover, 21st January following.
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(i.) Frances. Born 25tli July, 1737. Baptised
at Chilton Candover, 19tli August following.
Married at Chilton Candover, 2nd August, 1771,
Alexander Home, of Eomsey, Hants.
(ii.) Elizabeth. Born 14th February, 1739—40.
Baptised at Chilton Candover, 12th March following.
Buried at Chilton Candover, 20th May, 1757.
(iii.) Mary. Born 14th December, 1742, Bap-
tised at Chilton Candover, 12th January following.
(5) James Burleigh. Baptised at Godshill, 10th
October, 1708, Colonel in the Army. Died unmarried.
Buried at St. James', Bath, 9th October, 1776.
(G) John Burleigh. Baptised at Chale, 3rd Septem-
ber, 1711. Buried at Chale, 14th September, 1711.
(7) David Burleigh. Baptised at Chale, 16th October,
1714.
(8) Charles Burleigh. Baptised at Chale, 13th June,
1717.*
(i.) Lydia. Bom 18th July, 1701. Baptised at Gods-
hill 20th July following. Died 19th April, 1766.
Buried at Carisbrooke. Married, firstly, Cock-
burn. Married, secondly, at Chilton Candover, 9th May,
1733, Robert Clarke, Solicitor, of Newport, Isle of
Wight. He died 21st April, 1771. [See Clarke Pedigree,
Page 93.]
(ii.) Elizabeth. Baptised at Godshill, 1st March, 1702.
Buried at Godshill, 10th May, 1707.
(iii.) Mary. Baptised at Godshill, 13th August, 1706.
Perhaps married Lock.
Eichard Burley (or Burleigh). Baptised at Godshill,
12th April, 1700. Married Mary, daughter of David
Worsley, of Stenbury, Isle of Wight. She was baptised at
Gatcombb, 14th July, 1720, and was living in 1785, as
• In the regiistera at Chale is an entry of the baptism of " Chailes,
son of Charles and Mary Burleigh, baptised 22nd December, 1754.
Perhaps his son.
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appears from the will of her brother, James Worsley, of
Stenbury. They had issue : —
(1) Richard Burleigh. Baptised at Godshill, 20th
September, 1751, of whom below.
(2) Charles Burleigh. In the Army, Died unmarried.
Mary.
Richard Burleigh. Baptised at Godshill, 20th Septem-
ber, 1751. In Holy Orders. He lived at Newtown Park,
South Baddesley, Hants., near to Lymington. He died at
the Hotwells, in 1796. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
Reekes, She died at Bath, about October, 1810.
They had issue : —
(1) James Worsley Burleigh. Baptised at Boldre,
Co. Hants, 8th May, 1789. Buried at Boldre, 8th
September, 1789.
(2) Richard Burleigh. A Merchant at Gibraltar, who
had a son, also called Richard, who lived with his aunts,
and died unmarried.
(i.) Mary.* Baptised at Boldre, 2nd September, 1783.
(ii.) Jane. Baptised at Boldre, 25th August, 1784.
(iii.) Frances. Baptised at Boldre, 5th August, 1785.
(iv.) Maria. Baptised at Boldre, 16th August, 1786.
(v.) Ann. Baptised at Boldre, 17th August, 1790.
(vi.) Harriet,
(vii.) Charlotte,
(viii.) Emma.
* These are the seven Miss Buileighs that Aunt Elizabeth used to
eay " were the plainest women ehe had ever seen, but very worthy."
I think Mary must have died early, as Aunt Elizabeth never men-
tioned her.
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Zbc Clarhe jfamil^.
Of the Clarkes, my great-uncle, William Sewell, writing
in 1866, says: — "Here, again, I know absolutely nothing
of any one of an earlier date than my great-grandfather.
The house, the office, as in my father's time it used to be
significantly called, as absorbing nearly all the business
in the Isle of Wight, had been established, I often heard,
more than 100 years. But for this I cannot vouch. I
have a vague idea that there were two brothers, one my
great-uncle, Eichard, whom I well remember, another,
William, who died before me, leaving two sons, whom I
remember well, Robert and James. And then there must
have been at least three daughters, my grandmother
Edwardes, my grandmother Sewell, and my aunt, Lydia
Clarke. But here, again, I am sadly at fault. Such a
pedigree, however, would satisfy all the questions arising
in my mind as to the family relations of which I was con-
scious. But, as I have said, all beyond my three grand-
fathers is a terra incognita — a mist, a fog — not even
peopled with phantoms or myths. Of my great-grand-
father Clarke, I know nothing more than he must have
existed, because he had children. But who he was, what
he was — I am telling, perhaps, a story. There is a picture,
I believe, of him at Bonchurch, pinched, legal-looking, but
intelligent, and with this you must be content. I believe
him to have been one of the highly respected solicitors'
house of Clarke and Clarke, of IS^ewport."
" I directly, and all of you indirectly, owe a great part
of the shaping of our life and character to these persons,
whom as yet I have only named. As I look back I can
trace, in a thousand ways personal influences which they
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exercised upon iis, partly for good, partly for evil. And I
will, therefore, tell you something about them."
" The most important was my great-uncle, Eichard
Clarke, the brother of my grandmothers Sewell and
Edwardes, and the only male contemporary of that genera-
tion whom I remember. I recollect him only as an old,
very old man, living as a bachelor, and with him my great-
aunt, Lydia, his sister, also a very old lady. My sisters
have a picture of him, exhibiting a young, handsome,
gentlemanly, intelligent face, and this he must have been,
though I only remember him in his dotage, when he had
sunk into a helpless state of imbecility, and a martyr to
the gout. But I remember as a child, that although he
was almost in a state of unconsciousness, he never omitted
to say grace at dinner. He was in earlier days a man of
great literary tastes, collected a small library, which laid
the foundation of that taste and fondness for books to
which we all owe so much. Corresponded with Pennant
and Gilpin, letters from whom to him my sisters have, and
wrote that beautiful MS. supplement to Worsley's ' History
of the Isle of Wight,' which you have so often seen. I
only wish my penmanship, neatness, and accuracy could at
all approach to his. He must have been, in his time, a
very superior man, looked up to with great respect, and an
ancestor to be proud of. My great-aunt, Lyddy, his sister,
has been taken by my sist-er Elizabeth as the lay figure on
which to mould her character of Aunt Sarah, in her tale of
' Experience of Life.' Of course the imagination was
superior to the reality. But there was a certain power
and acuteness in my aunt, an acuteness amounting at times
to sharpness, which gave an appearance of dignity to her,
as she sat with her green silk bonnet, her never failing
carpet work, and the green screen to shade her eyes. I
suspect that in her earlier days she had been accustomed
to rule, and that her brother at times warned his nephews
against ever resigning their domestic liberty, by placing
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Coi.oxui, JAMl-S HrRLKIGH.
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OXK OF TIIK CLARKKvS.
Photo., /. E. Hriddoii, i cii/iior.]
their liouseliold under the dominion of a sister. A wife,
he thought, was better. As a child I always had a great
awe of my Aunt Clarke. Up to the last moment of her
life we all saluted her on the cheek, on paying her a visit,
and the salutation was always impregnated with a strong
odour of snuff. Nor did she hesitate to criticise our dress
or our manners, even when we were grown up. She ^ad
been accustomed in early life to associate with, and receive
the first families in the island, the Holmes, Worslcys,
Lord Bolton, and others, and for long after she was unable
to go out herself, the Lady Patronesses of the great annual
club ball, which was the court-day of the island, used to
come dressed, on their way to the ball, to shew themselves
to her. It was an instance of a strong mind in a modest
position, not merely maintaining that position, but exercis-
ing a certain power over persons of rank superior to herself.
"Whoever was calling on her you still felt, in her small
house and old-fashioned room, that she was still the
superior. I remember she used daily to read the Psalms
and Lessons, as ladies of that day did, I imagine, more
regularly than the}- do at present."
I liave altogether failed to trace the Clarke pedigree
beyond Robert Clarke, who was born in 1G92, and died in
1771. I believe they were not an Isle of Wight family
originally, but where they came from I cannot tell.
Thomas Clarke and Robert Clarke witnessed the will of
David Worsley, of Stenbury, in 1730, and Robert Clarke
witnessed another W^orslej^ will two years earlier. This
is the earliest mention 1 have found of their being in the
island. Perhaps Thomas was a brother of Robert Clarke.
Robert Clarke was a man of considerable means, as will
be seen from his will, which I have printed in full. He
owned property at Gosport, perhaps he was born there, but
the registers only commence in 1G9G, so I cannot tell.
Tlie arms used by the family are those assigned by
Burke to Clarke of Oxfordshire; the augmentation having
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been granted for taking prisoner Louis D'Orleans in 1513,
but the crest is not the same.
I should think it probable that our Clarkes come of the
same stock as the Clarkes of Avington, Hants., and of
Hyde Abbey, Winchester; pedigrees of whom will be
found in the "Visitation of Hampshire," printed by Sir
T. Phillips, and also in Burke's " Family Records." The
arms used by this family were : " Gu. a chevron between
three swans arg." To this family belonged Henry Clarke,
Solicitor, of Winchester, born in 1675. He married
Petronella (or Martha), daughter of Paul Deveral, a
Jamaica Merchant, by Anne Hyde, his wife, niece of the
Lord Chancellor, Clarendon, and consequently first cousin
of Anne Hyde, wife of James II. This connection with
the Stuarts might probably account for the picture of a
Dutch lady, which is now at Ashcliff, having come into
the Clarke family, from whom it passed to the Sewells.
The picture was painted by Willem Key, a Flemish
painter, who died in 1568. This picture belonged to
Charles I., and bears his crown and monogram branded on
the back. It formed part of the Whitehall collection, and
is included in the !MS. catalogue written by command of
the King in 1639 by Abraham van der Doort, and now in
the Bodleian Library at Oxford. But this is all con-
jecture.
The earliest ancestor on the Clarke side to whom we can
lay undoubted claim is Robert Clarke, mentioned above,
who died in 1771. His sons, William and Richard, seem
both to have been members of the firm of Solicitors at
Newport, then called Clarke and Clarke; at a later date
old Robert Clarke's grandson, James Clarke, was taken
into partnership.
William Clarke married Hannah Joliffe, and she after-
wards lost her reason. He, William, had three sons,
Robert, William, and James. William, I believe, died
young.
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ROHIvRT CI.ARKl';, ()!■ NKW TORT.
ihoto.,J. E. Ihidiioii, I'lhIiwi-.]
Eobert Clarke lived at Field House, on the Carisbrooke
side of jSTewport. He carried on a banking business in
Newport, which, after his death, was continued under the
style of Roe and Blaehford. I believe the firm failed
some time in the forties. Robert Clarke originated the
idea of raising a volunteer corps in the island in 1796. He
formed a company of volunteers in the town of Newport,
he being Captain; James Clarke, his brother. Lieutenant;
and their cousin, Thomas Sewell, Ensign. Thomas Sewell
was promoted to the rank of Captain, 14th February, 1799.
Robert Clarke was Mayor of Newtown in 1821. It was one
of the Rotten Boroughs, returning two members to Parlia-
ment, although the town had been reduced, so says Cooke,*
in 1813, to about a dozen cottages. The town had a Cor-
poration of Mayor and Burgesses, but this body did not
consist of the inhabitants, but of the proprietors of certain
tenures.
James Clarke lived in a house on the road to Arreton.
He published, in 1812, " A Military, Marine, and Topo-
graphical Survey of the Isle of Wight." This map, which
is coloured, not only gives the larger houses in the island,
but the names of their occupants. He married, late in
life, a woman much below him in the social scale.
Clarke Arms: — Ar. on a bend gu. between three
pellets as many swans ppr. for augmentation a
canton sinister az. thereon a demi ram mounting
of the first, armed or, between two fleurs-de-lis of
the last, over all a dexter baton of the second.
Crest: — A demi eagle winged.
Robert Clarke, of Newport, Isle of Wight, Solicitor.
Born 1692. Died 21st April, 1771. Buried at Caris-
brooke. Married, 9th May, 1733, at Chilton Candover,
Hants., Lydia, eldest daughter of the Rev. Richard
Burleigh, M.A., Rector of St. Lawrence and Chale, Isle of
Wight, and of Brown Candover, Hants., and widow of
•Cooke's " Survey of the Isle of Wight," 1813, page 62.
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Cockburn. She was born 18tli July, 1701, and
(lied 19th April, 17G6. She is buried at Carisbrooke. They
had issue : —
(1) William Clarke. Born 3rd April, 1735. Of whom
below.
(2) Eichard Clarke, of Newport, Isle of Wight,
Solicitor. Born 18th March, 1736. Baptised 14th
April, 1737, at Newport. Died, unmarried, 19th June,
1817. Buried, 26th June following, at Carisbrooke.
(i.) Lydia. Born 7th October, 1738, and baptised 26th
October following at Newport. Died, unmarried, 9th
April, 1828. Buried 17th April following at Caris-
brooke.
(ii.) Frances. Born 10th June, 1740, and baptised
24th July following, at Newport. She died 4th April,
1803, and was buried at Headley, 11th April following.
Married, 25th November, 1766, at Newport, the Rev.
William Sewell, M.A., Eector of Headley, Hants., and
Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. He was baptised
15th June, 1721, and died 18th October, 1800.
(iii.) Ann. Born 16th November, 1741, and baptised
29th July, 1742, at Newport. She was buried 28th
January, 1803, at Newport. Married, 20th June, 1764,
at St. Martin's, Guernsey, the Rev. John Edwards, M.A.,
Curate of Newport. He was baptised 3rd December,
1737, and buried 27th August, 1785, at Newport.
William Clarke, eldest son of Robert Clarke, was born
3rd April, 1735, and baptised 30th July following, at New-
port. Solicitor. He died 29th September, 1801, and is
buried at Carisbrooke. He married Hannah, daughter of
Jolliffe. She died 2l8t October, 1795, aged 56, and
was buried 27th October following, at Carisbrooke. They
had issue : —
(1) Robert Clarke. Banker, of Field House, New-
port. Born 7th May, 1764, and baptised 13th September
following, at Newport. He died, unmarried, 30th
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RICHARD CLARKK.
riiolo.,J. E. HriddoH \-entiwr.\
August, 1825, and was buried 5tli September following,
at Carisbrooke.
(2) "VYilliam Clarke. Baptised 2nd June, 1769, at
Newport. Died young,
(3) James Clarke. Solicilor. Baptised 26tli February,
1772, at Newport. Died Ist November, 1819, and buried
8th. November following, at Carisbrooke. He married
Elizabeth , and by her had issue an only daughter,
Mary, who married Captain Edward Bovill, and died
before th.e year 1822. Captain and Mrs. Bovill had an
only son, Edward Clarke Bovill, but I have failed to
trace the pedigree further.*
*I have copies of the following Clarke wills-:— Robert Clarke, sen.,
proved at Winchester 27th September, 1771; Richard Clarke, proved
at Canterbury 20th August, 1817; William Clarke, proved at Canter-
bury 24th November, 1801; James Clarke, proved at Canterbury
22nd April, 1822.
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John Edwards (or Edwardes), Llinister, of Rochester,
Co. Kent, had issue : —
(1) John Edwardes. Born 1653. Of whom below.
(2) Charles Edwards. Bom 1670. Matriculated at
Merton College, Oxford, 6th July, 1687, aged 17. Fellow
of All Souls' College. B.A. 29th January, 1691—2.
M.A. 1695. Died intestate. Administration Bond in
Chancellor's Court at Oxford, 9th November, 1721.
John Edwardes. Born 1G53. Matriculated at Trinity
College, Oxford, 8th March, 1669—70, aged 16. B.A. from
Merton College 1674. Fellow 1676. M.A. 1678. Rector
of Lapworth, Co. Warwick, 1688—1689. Rector of Cux-
ham. Co. Oxford, 1693—1717. Died 16th February, 1717.
Buried at Cuxham, 18th February following. Married
Margaret, daughter of . They had issue : —
(1) John Edwardes. Baptised at Cuxham, 27th
March, 1706. Buried at Cuxham 29th March, 1706.
(2) John Edwardes. Born 27th May, 1707. Of whom
below.
(3) James Wooldrige Edwardes. Born 4th December,
1715. Baptised at Cuxham 14th December following.
(i.) ^largaret. Baptised at Cuxham 22nd June, 1710.
(ii.) Elizabeth. Born 8th May, 1712. Baptised at
Cuxham 27th May following.
John Edwardes. Born 27th May, 1707. Baptised at
Cuxham 9th June following. Matriculated at All Souls'
College, Oxford, 23rd April, 1722, aged 15. Rector of
Brightwell-Baldwin, Co. Oxford, 1734. Buried at Bright-
well, 14th April, 1740. Married Mary Thompson. She
married, secondly, John "Walter (or Elmes). The Rev.
John Edwarde-s had issue, besides a daughter, Mary, who
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was baptised at Brightwell, ITth. September, 1736, oae
son: —
John Edwards. Baptised at Brightwell, 3rd December,
1737. Matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, 14 th
November, 1755, aged 17. B.A. 1759. M.A. 1763. Curate
of Plymouth, Devon c. 1764. Curate-in-Charge of New-
port. Isle of Wight, 1765. Chaplain H.M.S. Centaur 1770,
but seems to have held the Curacy of Newport until his
death. Buried at Newport, 27th August, 1785, Married,
20th June, 1764, at St. Martin's, Guernsey, Ann, youngest
daughter of Robert Clarke, of Newport. She was bom
16th November, 1741, and baptised at Newport, 29th July,
1742. She was buried at Newport, 28th January, 1803.
They had issue: —
(1) John Mountague Edwards. Bom 2nd July, 1766.
Baptised at Newport, 21st October following. Buried at
Carisbrooke, 8th June, 1770.
(2) James Edwards. Born 4th November, 1772,
Baptised the same day at Newport. Barrister-at-law.
Lived, first, at Binstead Cottage Isle of "Wight; after-
wards at Twyford, Hants. Died, unmarried, 19th June,
1843. Buried at Speen, Berks., 24th June following.
(3) John Edwards. Baptised at Newport, 29th June,
1776. Buried at Newport, 10th September, 1777.
(i.) Ann. Baptised at Newport, 16th July, 1767.
Buried at Newport, 4th May, 1837.
(ii.) Jane. Born 9th December, 1773, and baptised at
Newport the same day. Died 20th May, 1848. Buried
in the old cemetery, Newport, 27th May following. She
married, 29th March, 1802, Thomas Sewell, of New-
port.
The following notes on the Edwards family will supple-
ment the pedigree given abover: —
The name seems to have been spelt both with and without
the final " e." This " e " is used in all the entries in the
register books and on the inscriptions at Cuxham, but in
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the burial certificate of James Edwards at Speen it ia not
found. The name is spelt both ways in the registers at
Brightwell, but in those at St. Martin's, Guernsey, the
final " e " is dropped.
James Edwards was educated at the Free Grammar
School at Newport, and was afterwards taken into tho
office of Richard Clarke. Later he became a Barrister,
and practised on the Western Circuit. There is a view of
Binstead Cottage, " the residence of James Edwards,
Esq.," in George Brannan's '' Views of the Isle of Wight,"
published in 1824. Ann Edwards, James Edwards'
sister, after her mother's death, lived with the Thomas
Sewells at Newport.
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J.A:\Ii';S IvDWARDS.
Photo.,/. E. Bridduii, \\ntiior.\
Xrbe IRebbani ifamili?.
Arms : — Argent a bend engrailed Azure between two
bucks' beads cabosbed sable.
Crest : — A pboenix Or rising from flames proper.
William do Nedbam, Lord of Staunton, Co. Cbester, and
of Nedbam, Co. Derby. Living in 1102. He bad a son : —
Walter de Nedbam. Living 1154. He bad a son: —
Roger de' Nedbam. Living 1200. He bad a son: —
William de Nedbam. He bad a son : —
Jobn de Nedbam. He bad a son: — *
Jobn de Nedbam of Nedebam, Co. Derby. Living
4 Edward III ., Iu30. He bad a son : —
Tbomas de Nedebam, of Nedebam, Co. Derby. Living
11 Edward III., 1337. He bad issue: —
(1) Tbomas de Nedebam, of Nedebam, Co. Derby.
Living 1373. From wbom descend tbe Needbams,
of Tbomsett, Snitterton and Cowley, Co. Derby.
(2) William de Nedebam, of Cranage, Co. Cbester,
" jure uxoris " Justice of Cbester. He married Alice,
daugbter and co-beir of William de Cranacb, of Cranage,
Co. Cbester. Living 1375. Tbey bad issue: —
Ricbard de Nedebam, of Cranage, Co. Cbester. Died
Marcb, 1407. Inq. P.M. He bad a son-
Robert de Nedebam, of Cranage. Born 1386. Died
23rd June, 1448. Raised an altar tomb, formerly at
Holmes Cbapel, Co. Cbester. He married, first, Dorotby,
daugbter of Sir Jobn Savage, of Clifton, Co. Cbester,
Knigbt. He married, secondly, Agnes, daugbter of .
Sbe was living 1448. Robert de Nedebam bad issue by bis
first wife : —
(1) Tbomas Nedebam. Died 1463. Of wbom below.
• Earwaker does not give the first five descents in his pedigree of
the family in the " History of Sandbach."
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(2) Sir John Nedeham, Knight. Chief Justice of
Chester, and of the Common Pleas. Knighted
20th May, 14G4. Purchased the second half of
the Manor of Cranage and that of Shavington, Co.
Salop. M.P. for London 1450. Died S.P. 25th
April, 1480. He married Margaret, daughter of
Randle Mainwaring, of Peover, Co. Chester, relict
of William Bromley, of Cheverton.
(3) Robert Nedeham. Died 1431.
(4) Hugh Nedeham.
(5) William Nedeham.
Agnes, married John Starkey, of Oulton and Wren-
bury. Marriage licence, 20th December, 1449.
Thomas Nedeham, of Cranage. Died 1463. He married
Maud, daughter of Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, Co.
Chester, Knight. She died 1463. They had a son: —
William Nedeham, of Cranage. Serjeant-at-law for
Cheshire, 1461. Died be-fore 1487. He married Isabel,
daughter and co-heir of Sir John Bromley, Knight, of
Badington, and heir to her mother, Joan, daughter and
heir of William Hextall. They had issue: —
(1) William Nedeham. Heir to his great-uncle, Sir
John Nedeham, in 1487, then aged 5. Heir in ward to
Sir John Savage. Died 21st June, 1500. S.P.
(2) Sir Robert Nedeham. Died 4th June, 1556. Of
whom below.
Margery, married Thomas Whittingham, of Pountley,
and had six daughters, co-heirs.
Sir Robert Nedeham, of Cranage and Shavington,
Knight. Heir to his brother, William. Knighted Slst
May, 1533. Sheriff of Cheshire 1538, and of Shropshire
1528 and 1540. Died 4th June, 1556. Monument at
Adderley, Co. Salop. Married Agnes, daughter of John
Mainwaring, of Peover, Co. Chester, Esq. She died 2nd
May, 1560, and was buried at Adderley. They had
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(1) Thomas Needham. Living 1570. Of whom below.
(2) Thomas Needham. Died before 1544.
(3) John Needham. Died before 1544.
(4) Robert Needham. Died before .
(5) (6) (7) Three other sons.
(i.) Maud. Died before 1544. Married Sir Thomas
Yenables, of Kinderton, Knight. He died J uly, 1580.
(ii.) Jane. Married Sir Andrew Corbet, of Moreton
Corbet, Co. Salop, Knight. Sheriff of Salop 1551. He
died 1578.
Thomas Needham, of Cranage and Shavington, Esq.
Living 1570. Died " in vita Patris." Married, first,
Anne, daughter of Sir John Talbot, of Grafton, Co. Wor-
cester, Knight, and sister of George 9th Earl of Shrews-
bury. He married, secondly, Agnes, daughter of
Hope, by whom he had an only daughter, named Agnes.
By his first wife Thomas Needham had issue : —
(1) Robert Needham, Buried 18th December, 1603.
Of whom below.
(2) John Needham.
(i.) Agnes. Buried at Holmes Chapel, Co. Chester,
23rd January, 1622—23. She man-ied, first. Sir Richard
Bulkeley, of Beaumaris, Anglesey, and of Cheadle, Co.
Chester, Knight. M.P. for Anglesey. [Sir Richard's
first wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Savage,
of Rock Savage, Co. Chester.] Agnes Needham married,
secondly, Laurence Cranage, of Holmes Chapel, Co.
Chester, Gent. Living 19 Jac. I. He was buried at
Keel, Co. Stafford.
(ii.) Margaret. Married Richard Steventon, of Dot-
hull.
(iii.) Mary. Married George Coyney, of Weston, Co.
Stafford.
(iv.) Joane.
(v.) Anne.
Robert Needham, of Cranage and Shavington, Esq.
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Sheriff of Shropshire 15G4, 1585, and 1595. Yice-Presi-
dent of the Marches of Wales. Held important commands
during the war in Ireland. Buried at Adderley, 18th
December, 1603. Married Frances, youngest daughter of
Sir Edward Ashton, of Tixall, Co. Stafford, Knight. She
was buried at Adderley, 31st August, 1601, They had
issue : —
(1) Sir Robert Needham, of Cranage and Shavington,
Knight. Knighted in Ireland, September, 1594 Sheriff
of Shropshire 1606. Of the Council to the President of
Wales, 12th November, 1617. Created Viscount Kil-
morey, Co. Clare, in the Peerage of Ireland, 18th April,
1625. Buried at Adderley, 26th November, 1631. He
is ancestor by his second wife of the present Earl of
Kilmorey.* He married four times. First, Jane,
daughter of John Lacy, of London, Alderman, and of
Boston, Co. Somerset. She died 16th July, 1591, S.P.,
and was buried at Adderley. Viscount Kilmorey
married, secondly, Anne, daughter of D'Oyley,
and widow of Wilmott. Viscount Kilmorey's
third wife was Catherine, daughter of John Pobinson, of
London, and relict of George Huxley, of Wyrehill, Co.
Middlesex. Viscount Kilmorey's fourth wife was
Dorothy, daughter of Humphrey Smith, of Cheapside,
London, Silkman, widow of Benedict Bamham, Esq.,
Alderman of London (2). Sir John Pakington, K.B.
(fourth wife). She married, firstly, Thomas Erskine,
first Earl of Kelly.
(2) Thomas Needham, of Pool Park, Co. Denbigh.
Of whom below.
(i.) Dorothy. Married Richard Chetwood, of Co.
Northampton.
(ii.) Anne. Married Robert Powell, of the Park, near
Oswestry, Co. Salop, Esq.
* For descendants of Robert, first Viscount Kilmorey, see Peerages.
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(iii.) Jane. Married James Coleire, of Darlaston. Re-
married Hocknell.
(iv.) Elizabeth. Died S.P.
(v.) Maud. Married JoKn Astoa, of Aston, Co.
Chester.
(vi.) Mary. Married, first, Thomas Onslow ; secondly,
Sir Eobert Vernon, of Hodnet, Co. Salop, Knight.
Thomas Needham, of Pool Park, Co. Denbigh. Married,
at Trinity Church, Chester, 20th July, 1601, Eleanor,
daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Bagenal, of Newry and
Plas Newydd, Anglesey, Knight. Marshal of Ireland, and
widow of Sir Eobert Salisbury, Knight. [Sir Henry
Bagenal was Marshal of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth,
and received " large grants, manors, lordships, and royal-
ties " in Ireland, and was killed at Black Rock, 14th
August, 1598.] They had issue : —
(1) Sir Robert Nedham. Knighted 1630. Of whom
below.
(2) Arthur Xedham, of Cambridge.
(3) Thomas Nedham, of London.
(4) Richard Kedham.
(5) Francis Nedham. Apprenticed 1632.
Elizabeth.
Sir Robert Nedham, Knight, of Pool Park, Co. Denbigh,
and of Lambeth, Surrey. Knighted at St. James', 1630.
Married, first, Mary, daughter of John Hartop, of Lambeth,
Surrey, Esq. He married, secondly, Jane, widow of John
Worsfield, of Lambeth, Surrey, Esq. By his second wife
Sir Robert Nedham had issue : —Mary, Eleanor, Francis
(who married Badens, Esq., of Amphillis), and Jane
(who married Charles, brother of Sir Thomas Middleton,
Bart.). By his first wife, Mary Hartop, Sir Robert Ned-
ham had issue : —
(1) Robert Nedham, Esq. Born 1644. Died March,
1688. Married Lady Mary Brabazon, second daughter
of Edward, 2nd Earl of Meath. They had one son,
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Nicholas Nedham, Esq. Living 1688. "Whose line, failed.
(2) George Nedham, Esq. Speaker of the House of
Assembly, Jamaica. Of whom below,
(i.) Anne. Died S.P.
(ii.) Jane. Born c. 1645. Married Charles Myddle-
ton, Esq., of Chirck Castle, Co. Denbigh. Widower.
Marriage licence-, 16th October, 1660.
George Nedham, Esq., of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale, and
St. Catherine's, Jamaica, to which island he fled after
having been defeated with the Royalists at "Worcester,
and subsequently received large grants there from the
Crown in reward of his past services. Speaker of the
House of Assembly, Jamaica, 1686. He married, first,
Mary, daughter of AVilliam Byam, of Antigua, Esq.,
President of the Council in that island, by Dorothy, his
wife, daughter of Francis Knollys, Esq., of Stamford-in-
the-Vale, Co. Berks, third son of Richard Knollys, brother
of William, 1st Earl of Banbury, K.G. George Nedham
married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Modiford,
Enight, Governor of Jamaica, but by her had no issue.
She died 1690. George Nedham and Mary, his first wife,
had issue : —
(1) Robert Nedham, Esq., of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale
and St. Catherine's, Jamaica. Succeeded as co-heir
with Sir Edward Bayley [ancestor of the Marquis of
Anglesey] to the estates of Nicholas Bagenal, Esq.,
grandson of Sir Henry Bagenal, of Newry. He be-
queathed his Jamaica estates to his nephew, George
Ellis, Esq., and died in Jamaica, 1738. Married
Elizabeth, daughter of William Shirley, Esq., of
Jamaica, fourth son of Thomas Shirley, Esq., of Preston,
Co. Sussex. They had issue: —
(1) Robert Nedham, Esq., of Newry, and Mome
Park, Co. Down, of Howbery, Co. Oxon., and of
Waresley Paa-k, Co. Huntingdon. M.P. for Winchel-
sea. M.P. for Old Sarum 1734—1741. Born 1704.
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Died 1762. Married, 2l8t May, 1733, Harriet (or
Catherine), daughter of Robert Pitt, Esq., of
Boscoanoc, Co. Cornwall, M.P., one of the Clerks of
the Green Cloth. Sister of William, Ist Earl of
Chatham. By her he had issue three sons and one
daughter. (1) George Nedham. Died S.P., 12th
December, 1767. (2) Robert Nedham. Died un-
married. (3) William Nedham, of Newry, and
Mome Park, Co. Down, of Howbery, Co. Oxon.,
and of Waresley Park, Co. Huntingdon, Esq., M.P.
for Pontefract. He died S.P. 27th April, 1806, and
left his ancestral estates to Robert, 11th Viscount
Kilmorey. The daughter, Harriet, married, 15th
June, 1758, Thomas Trollop Brown, Esq., of Gret-
ford, Co. Lincoln, and of Besthorpe, Co. Norfolk.
They had an only daughter, Mary, who married, in
1793, George, 3rd Earl of Pomfret, and died S.P.
17th September, 1839.
(2) Henry Nedham. Born 1708. Died S.P. in
Jamaica.
Shirley married, first, Matthew Concanon, Esq.,
Attorney-General of Jamaica, and, secondly. Sir
Henry Hamilton Ireland. She died S.P.
(2) Hender Nedham. Died S.P.
(3) William Nedham, Esq., of Mount Olive, St.
Thomas-in-the-Vale, Jamaica. Of whom below.
(4) George Nedham. Died an infant.
(5) Henry Nedham. Died S.P.
(6) Edward Winter Nedham. Died S.P.
Elizabeth Grace, married John Ellis, of Jamaica,
eldest son of Major John Ellis, of Jamaica. He had
issue George Ellis, Esq., Chief Justice of Jamaica [to
whom his maternal uncle, Robert Nedham, left his
estates in Jamaica]. Charles Rose Ellis, elder son of
the Chief Justice was created Baron Seaford in 1826.
William Nedham Esq., of Mount Olive, St. Thomas-in-
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the-Vale, Jamaica. Speaker of the House of Assembly
1718 and 1733. Chief Justice of Jamaica. Died 1st July,
1746, aged 77, and was buried in the Cathedral at Spanish
Town. He married Olivia, daughter and heir of Oliver
Hampson, of Mount Olive, Jamaica, Esq., with whom he,
William Nedham, acquired that estate. She is buried in
the Cathedral at Spanish Town. They had issue : —
(1) Hampson Nedham, Esq. Born 1706. Of whom below.
(2) Robert Nedham. Born 9th September, 1702.
Died S.P., 6th March, 1717.
(3) George Nedham. Born 15th September, 1703.
Died S.P., 27th September, 1717.
(4) William Nedham. Born 9th July, 1710. Died
S.P., 1711.
Hampson Nedham, of Mount Olive, Jamaica, Esq.
Barrister-at-Law. Inner Temple 1730. Born 1706. Died
April, 1752. Buried in the Cathedral at Spanish Town.
Married, 6th Januaiy, 1728, Martha, daughter of John
Dubber, of "Witney, Co. Oxford. They had issue: —
William Dandy Nedham, of Mount Olive, Jamaica, and
of Hanover Square, London, Esq. Speaker of the House
of Assembly 1766. Born 23rd September, 1730. Died
.1811. Having married, first, 4th June, 1760, Mary,
daughter of John Morant and sister of Edward Morant,
Esq., of Brockeiihurst, Hants., and widow of Vere Hicks,
Esq., of Jamaica. She died S.P. in 1768. William
Dandy Nedham married, secondly, at St. George's, Hanover
Square, 7th April, 1769, Eleanor, daughter and
heir of Archibald Aikenhead, of Stirling Castle, Jamaica,
Esq. She died 19tli Januaiy, 1791. By his second wife
William Dandy Nedham had issue: —
(1) AVilliam Nedham. Born 18th March, 1770. Of
whom below.
(2) Eobert Nedham. Born 19th November, 1772, at
Stamford, Co. Lincoln. A Midshipman, R.N. Died
S.P. 1790.
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(3) John Nedham. Born in Hanover Street, London,
7tli January, 1774. In Holy Orders. B.A. Oriel College,
Oxford. Incorporated at Cambridge. M.A. from St.
Peter's College, Cambridge. Rector of Mundesley, Co.
Norfolk, at time of marriage. Hector of South Ormsby,
Co. Lincoln, December, 1802. Died near Newark, Co.
Notts., 31st December, 1822. He married, at St.
George's, Hanover Square, 27th August, 1798, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Lack, Esq. She died at
Newark, 1st January, 1828. They had issue : —
(1) William Thomas Nedham. Of the Board of
Trade. Born 27th Jul}-, 1799. Died, unmarried,
10th December, 1824, at the Hotwells.
(2) Francis Nedham. Captain 30th Madras
Native Infantry. Born 4th September, 1804. Died,
unmarried, 1st Eebruary, 1843.
(3) Eobert Nedham. Born 9th March, 1813.
Died, unmaiTied, in 1838.
Lucinda Frances. Married, at St. Mary's, Lam-
beth, Edward John Lack, Esq., of the Board of
Trade, and had issue Henry Lack. Bom 1777.
Died 1777. Olivia Lack. Died an infant.
(4) Henry Nedham. Born at Brussels. Baptised
by the Bishop of Derry. Died the next day. Buried in
the Abbey of Candebery at Binissels, 1777.
(5) Henry Nedham. Born in Abingdon Street, West-
minster, 25th May, 1778. Buried at Paddington
Church.
(i.) Olivia. Born in Abingdon Street, 5th July, 1779.
Buried at Paddington Church.
William Nedham, of Mount Olive, Jamaica, and of Wid-
combe, near Bath, Esq. A Major-General in the Army,
and Colonel of the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion. M.P. for
Athenry in the last Irish Parliament. Born in Mount
Street, Grosvenor Square, London, 18th March, 1770.
Died at Worthing, 13th February, 1844. He married,
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first, Lucinda, daughter of George Strode, of Wookey, Co.
Somerset, Esq., and widow of Captain William C. Skinner,
H.E. [She was granddaughter of Abraham Gapper, Esq.,
Serjeant-at-Law.] She died S.P., at the Cove of Cork,
Ireland, 6th May, 1809. Major-General Nedham married,
secondly, 13th August, 1810, Marianne, second daughter
of the Eev. Aaron Abraham Baker, D.C.L., Eector of
Marksbury and Bamett, and Vicar of Brislington, Co.
Somerset. A Deputy-Lieutenant for Somerset. She died
15th March, 1871. By his second wife General Nedham
had issue : —
(1) William Robert Nedham. Bom 30th May, 1811.
Of whom below.
(2) Henry Nedham, of Jamaica, and of the Inland
Eevenue Office. Born 29th October, 1814. Died 1877.
Married, 1st December, 1853, Alexandrina Annie Har-
riette, third daughter of Captain Frederick Nepean
Skinner, 26th Cameronians. She died 24th December,
1869. They had issue: —
(1) Henry Burroughes Nedham.
(2) George Nedham.
(i.) Euth.
(ii.) Annie.
(3) George Frederick Nedham, of H.M. Customs.
Born 7th March, 1821. Died S.P. 27th May, 1871. He
married, iirst, at Lacy Green, Bucks., 30th September,
1865, Jane Augusta, youngest daughter of John Thomas
Deacon, Esq., of Giymsdyke Lodge, Princes Eisborough,
Bucks. She died 29th July, 1866. George Frederick
Nedham married, secondly, 3rd September, 1868, Adele,
third daughter of Constantine John Laisne, Esq., of
London.
(4) Alfred Gyllett Nedham. Colonel Bengal S.C.
Army. Born lOLh May, 1823, at Clifton. Died 11th
June, 1870. He married, first, Jane, daughter of Colonel
AVilliam Earle, Bengal Army. He married, secondly,
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Jessie Rebecca, daughter of Major Kenneth Campbell,
E.I.C.S., 45th Bengal N.I.
By his first wife Colonel Alfred Nedham had issue
one son: — William Alfred Nedham. In the Uncoven-
anted Service. Assistant-Commissioner Central India.
Born Gth November, 1846. Married, 15th August, 1878, ■
Caroline Frances, eldest daughter of Edward Bellamy
Kitson, Esq., of Beaminster, Dorset.
By his second wife Colonel Alfred Nedham had
issue : —
(1) Alfred George Nedham. Born 23rd Septem-
ber, 1854.
(2) Charles Donald Nedham. Born 25th March,
1857.
(3) Robert Bird Nedham. Lieutenant in the Army.
Northumberlandshire Regiment. Born 21st No-
vember, 1860. Died 1885, having married Amy,
daughter of Colonel Barnet.
(i.) Jessie Murray. Married Boydell, Esq.
(ii.) Minnie Alice Lewe. Married Herbert
Carruthers, A.M.D.
(5) Charles Nedham. Born 1st July, 1825. Lieutenant-
General in the Indian Army. Lieut«nant-Colonel
S.C. Deputy-Judge-Advocate Presidency and Eastern
Frontier Circle. Lived at Cheltenham, where he died,
4th July, 1892. He married Frances, eldest daughter
of Captain Frederick Nepean Skinner [sister of Mrs.
Henry Nedham, and great-niece of Captain William C.
Skinner, father of Mrs. William Nedham's first hus-
band], and widow of Helenus Young, Esq. She died
at Cheltenham, 2nd July, 1898. General Charles Ned-
ham had issue : —
(1) Charles Frederick Nedham. Born 16th July,
1854.
(2) Edward Montgomerie Nedham. Wing Officer
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36th Bengal N.I. Late Lieutenant 22nd Regiment.
Born Sth October, 1855.
Gertrude. Married Dr. McWatters.
(i.) Lucinda Marianne. Bom at the- Cove of Cork,
18th December, 1812. Died 28th July, 1844. Married,
15th May, 1834, Henry Sewell, Esq.
(ii.) Eleanor Pryor. Died, unmarried, 1833.
William Robert Nedham. Born 30th May, 1811.
Major-General in the Army, and Colonel Royal Artillery.
Died at Boulogne-sur-Mer, 27th December, 1867. He
married, first, 17th December, 1833, Emma, second
daughter of Thomas Hayter Longden, Esq., of Hyde
Park Place, Co. Middlesex, and of Wood Lodge, Co. Kent.
A Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex, She died at Pau,
18th January, 1858. Major-General William Nedham
married, secondly, at Bristol, 16th August, 1859, his
cousin, Mary Woodcock, daughter of Popham Baker, Esq.,
Commander R.N. By his first wife Major-General
William Nedham had issue: —
(1) William Francis Longden Nedham. Born 24th
October, 1834. Died 17th September, 1837.
(2) William Francis Longden Nedham, B.A. Exeter
College, Oxford. In Holy Orders. Curate of Chatham,
Kent. Born 9th June, 1838. Died at Ramsgate., 7th
June, 1864.
(3) Henry Hawley Nedham. Died, an infant, 1841.
(4) Henry Watson Nedham. Born 1st October, 1848.
Died 5th September, 1881.
(5) Charles Sewell Nedham. Bom 23rd September,
1849. Of whom below.
(6) Robert Nedham. Bom 1850. Died 1853.
(7) Edward Mark Scudamore Nedham. Bom at
Brighton 28th April, 1854.
(i.) Eleanor Emma. Of Bath, Co. Somerset. Born
2nd February, 1836.
(ii.) Emma Bagenall.
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(iii.) Lucy Ellen. Married, 15th August, 1876, the
Rev. John Charles Adams, B.A., Minister of the Epis-
copal Church, Moffet. He died at Moffet, 18th August,
1891.
(iv.) Blanche Louisa Maud. Bom 23rd February,
(v.) Alice Marion. Married, 31st July, 1871, Charles
Norman Pochin, Esq. He died August, 1898.
(vi.) Edith Octavia.
By his second wife Major-General William Nedham had
issue : —
Wiliam Robert de Nedham Nedham. Bom 8th
September, 1865.
(i.) Maud. Bom 9th February, 1861, at Sheerness.
(ii.) Mary. Bom 19th February, 1863, at Sheerness.
Charles Sewell Nedham. Bom 23rd September, 1849.
Captain R.N. [Re^tired.] Of Glen Boon, Branksome,
Chine, Bournemouth. He married, 31st March, 1879,
Blanche, daughter of William Cotes, Esq., and widow of
Charles E. Pope, Esq. They have issue : —
(i.) Lorna Adele Lewis. Bom 9th January, 1880.
(ii.) Shirle. Died 1886.
(iii.) Iris Eleanor Burgoyne. Bom February, 1887.
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TLbc Ikittoe faintly.
Captaia Edward Kittoe, E.N., of Sholden, near Deal,
Kent. Born c. 1768. Died c. 1823. He married Eliza-
beth, daughter of . She died at Chadwell St. Mary,
Esses, 9th March, 1850. They had issue one son and two
daughters : —
Edward Hooper Kittoe. Born 1822. Of whom below.
(i.) Mary Anne. Born 1817. Died at Ventnor, Isle
of Wight, 26th November, 1889. S.P. Buried in the
Cemetery at Ventnor. She married the Rev. William
M. H. Elwyn, M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge, and Yicar of Waresley, Hunts., 1849—1886.
He was born 1st May, 1815, and died 19th January,
1894, S.P. He was buried in the Cemetery at Ventnor,
24th January following.
(ii.) Elizabeth. Born at Sholden, 9th February,
1819. Died at AVaresley, Hunts., 29th May, 1880.
Buried at Waresley. She married, at Deal, 23rd
January, 1850, Henry Sewell, Esq.
Edward Hooper Kittoe. M.A. Exeter College, Oxford.
Born 1822. Curate of Chadwell, Essex. Vicar of Bold-
mere, Co. Warwick, 1857. Eural Dean of Sutton Cold-
field, Co. Warwick, 1887. Died at Boldmere, 22nd
February, 1894. He married, at Ashwicken, 23rd April,
1851, Emma, daughter of Richard Dewing, Esq., of
Ashwicken, Co. Norfolk by Elizabeth Goss, his wife. She
died at Green Hill Lodge, Sutton Coldfield, 24th July,
1894. They had issue one son: —
Edward Dewing Kittoe. Born 14th March, 1852.
Brev/er with Messrs. H. J. Panton and Co., Wareham
and Swanage, Dorset. Captain 1st (Swanage) Dorset
Artillery Volunteers. He died 13th February, 1889,
having married Elizabeth, daughter of Panton,
of Wareham, Dorset. By this marriage there was an
only daughter, Una St. Mary. Born 1885.
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XTbe Dauabau ffamtl?.
A pedigree of the family going back' to Gaines to Drym-
benog, second son of Dryffin, Prince of Brecon, will be
found in Jones' " History of the County of Brecknock."
Vol. II. Part II. Page 505. Like most Welsh pedigrees,
there is a delightful lack of dates, the earliest one I can
find in the pedigree is that of the death of Sir Roger
Vaughan, who was slain at Agincourt, 25th October, 1415.
Our pedigree begins where Jones' leaves off: —
Charles Vaughan, Eectur of Crickhowel, Co. Brecon, and
Eector of Llangattock. Married Emilia, daughter of John
Monck, Esq., of Bath. They had issue: —
(1) Henry Vaughan. B.A. Worcester College, Ox-
ford. Vicar of Crickhowel, Co. Brecon, 1832, and
Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea. A strong Evangelical,
of the Simeon following. Born 6th January, 1806.
Died 15th January, 1837. He married Elizabeth John-
son, and had issue : —
(1) Henry Vaughan. Married Mary Abbott.
They had one son, Henry Vaughan, who married
Cecely Newman.
(2) William Vaughan. Married Amelia Vaughan.
(2) Charles Vaughan. B.A. Of whom below.
(i.) Emily. Died 7th September, 1869, having
married the Rev. Joseph Gibbs, Perpetual Curate of
Clifton Hampden, Co. Oxford. He was born 23rd July,
1801, and died 22nd March, 1864.
(ii.) Catherine. Died at Clifton, having married
Marcellus Newton.
(iii.) Ellen.
Charles Vaughan. B.A. Wadham College, Oxford.
Rector of Crickadarn with Llandevalley, Co. Brecon.
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Married Emily, daughter of Jolm Reeve, and had issue: —
(1) Blyth Yaughan.
(2) Charles Vaughan.
(3) Walter Vaughan.
(4) Cecil Vaughan.
(i.) Amelia. Married J. Hamilton Ramsey.
(ii.) Blanche. Married John Russell.
(iii.) Elizabeth Gertrude. Born 24th September,
1845. Married, 14th May, 1878, the Rev. William
Sewell, M.A., Rector of Little Sampford, Essex.
(iv.) Sybil Ellen. Married, 27th November, 1890,
Charles Hall, of Wisborough Tower, Susses.
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Zbc Seymour 3famil\?,
Arms of Seymour: — Gules, two wings conjoined in
a fesse or.
George Penrose Seymour, Esq., of Belmont, in the
Parish of Wraxall, and of Blackwell, Somerset. J. P. and
D.L. for Somerset. Born 17G6. Died 26th July, 1827.
Buried at Wraxall. He married, 1791, Louisa, daughter
of John Cam, Esq., of Claverham, Somerset. She was born
1766, and died 13th March, 1853, at Clifton. They had
issue : —
(1) George Turner Seymour. Born 1792. Of whom
below.
(2) Henry Cam Seymour. Major of the. 23rd Eegi-
ment, Eoyal Welsh Fusiliers. Bom 1803. Died 3rd
March, 1847, at Clifton. He married Mary, eldest
daughter of the Rev. Andrew Daubeny, M.A., of Black-
well, Somerset. She died 16th April, 1887.
George Turner Seymour, of Tyntesfield, in the Parish of
Wraxall, Somerset. In Holy Orders. LL.B. Trinity
Hall, Cambridge. J. P. for the County of Somerset. He
was at Eton College 1808. Afterwards he matriculated at
Oriel College, Oxford, 1809. He owned Farringford, Isle
of Wight, which he sold to the^ first Lord Tennyson. Born
1792. Died 14th October, 1880. He married, 1814,
Marianne, only -daughter of John Billingsley, Esq., of
Ashwick Grove, Somerset. She was born in 1794, and
died 13th September, 1862. They had issue: —
(1) George Alexander Seymour. Educated at Eton
College, 1826. Scholar of King's College, Cambridge,
1838. Died young at Cambridge.
(2) John Billingsley Seymour. Educated at Eton
College, 1838. Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, 1839—
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1843. Bom 27tli January, 1822. Died, unmarried, at
Illyria, October, 1842. [There is a brass, with figure, in
Balliol College Chapel to his memory.]
(3) Henry Forteseue Seymour. M.A. Fellow of All
Souls' College, Oxford. Vicar of Barking, Essex, 1854 —
70, and Rector of Nettlecombe, Somerset, 1870—1900.
Born 1837. Died . He married Elizabeth,
daughter of the Eight Rev. Charles Lloyd, D.D., Bishop
of Oxford. [1827—29.]
(4) Arthur Seymour. Married Katharine Florence,
daugliter of Frederick Huddlestone, Esq., of Nelson, New
Zealand.
(5) Herbert Seymour. Died in New Zealand.
(i.) Marianne Billingsley. Born 1st January, 1815,
at Long Ashton, Somerset. Died 16th July, 1849. She
married, 20th August, 1840, Robert Burleigh Sewell,
Solicitor, of Newport, Isle of Wight. He was born 21st
September, 1809, and died 22nd March, 1872.
(ii.) Louisa. Married Ralph Richardson, M.D., of
Nelson, New Zealand. Member of the House of
Assembly.
(iii.) Jane Forteseue, who died 6th February, 1878,
having married, 11th August, 1846, Sir John Duke Cole-
ridge, P.C, D.C.L., F.R.S., first Baron Coleridge, of
Ottery St. Mary, Devon. Lord Chief Justice of Eng-
land. He was born 3rd December, 1821, and died 14th
June, 1894. He married, secondly, 13th August, 1885,
Amy Augusta, daughter of Henry Baring Lawford, Esq.,
Bengal C.S.
(iv.) Harriet.
(v.) Emily.
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IRote ow tbe family of Seymour.
The following notes on the Seymour family are extracted
from two letters written to me by the late Rev. Henry
Portescuo Seymour, Rector of Nettlecombe : —
" The Dukes of Somerset are of our family. "We prove
lineal descent, from father to son, from Sir John Sey-
mour of AYolfe Hall, Wilts., described by Lodge as ' a
wealthy and powerful Nobleman ' of that day. He was
the father of Queen Jane and of the Protector, first
Duke of Somerset. Sir John Seymour traced lineal
descent from Roger de St, Maur in Normandy, who came
over with William I., whose motto was ' Foy pour
Devoir.'
" Sir John Seymour, of Wolfe Hall, had three sons : —
(1) The Protector; (2) Henry, commonly called Lord
Henry Seymour, though the title must have been one of
courtesy only; (3) Thomas, created Lord Seymour of
Sudle}^, who married Catherine Parr, and died without
issue.
" We are descended [from father to son] lineally from
the second son, Henry, the only one of the brothers who
died a natural death. The Protector and Lord Seymour
were both beheaded. It is recorded of Lord Henry
Seymour that ' he lived a retired life, and died beloved
and lamented, not only by his family and friends, but
by all classes. He was distinguished for his blameleea
life, his genial disposition, and courteous manners.'
His descendants were settled in Gloucestershire and
Somersetshire, in the Parishes of Bitton, Frampton Cot-
terell, and Wraxall, all near Bristol. Bitton Manor
belonged to them for some generations. In Frampton
Cotterell Church there are various monuments to them,
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one restored by my grandfather. In the latter, Wraxall,
they had a Family Yault in the North Chancel. My
grandfather, George Penrose Seymour, of Belmont, was
for many years a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant of
Somerset. He, my father, uncle, aunt, etc., etc., lie
buried there. A marble tablet records this on the inside
north wall. If you are interested in pedigrees I have
lineal descent, through my mother's family, the For-
tescues of Fallapit, Devon, to another Roger, a Leader
[Dux] in William I.'s Army. He had for his motto,
' Forte Scutum salus Ducum,' which was the origin of
the name of Fortescue.
" I proved these pedigrees when I stood for and
obtained a Fellowship at All Souls' College, where you
must be ' bene natus ' by the Founder's will. These
pedigrees ought to be in the College Library. Having
served their purpose, I have not seen them since. They
would prove our branch only. I used to say at All Souls'
College that having proved myself ' bene natus ' on both
sides, they ought to have given me two Fellowships
instead of one. They did not, however, see it in that
light.
" There is [or was] an excellent General Pedigree of
the Seymour Family in the possession of the Marquis of
Aylesbury at Savernake Park, near Marlborough, Wilts.,
the county in which our family was settled for many
generations. Wolfe Hall was near, if not in, Savernake
Forest."
I have been unable to find these pedigrees in All Souls'
Libraiy. The following is from a later letter to me from
the Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour: —
" The two pedigrees were never returned to me which
I sent in at All Souls' over 40 years ago ! and I can well
imagine that no one knows anything about them at this
distance of time. I have no copies; only notes and
these have not been taken care of. They were compiled
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at the time from family documents, three weeks'
researches at the British Museum in company with an
official, and with frequent visits to the Herald's Office.
I was also assisted by notes and memoranda from a then
Fellow of All Souls' interested in pedigrees.
" I am away from home, but as far as I recollect, Lord
Henry Seymour's family traced down to Bitton Manor,
in Gloucestershire, and we traced up to it, and I had to
prove the steps. In Bitton Church, and in the adjoining
Church, I forget its name [I thini; Westerleigh], there
are many monuments of our family, and this proved one
of the clues. There were other keys to the pedigree."
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XTbe ®weu family.
Arms : — Quarterly, Ist and 4th, per pale Az. and Gu.
a Lion Eampant Arg. between three crosses
patee or. (Owen) ; 2nd and 3rd, Sable three
conies courant two and one Arg. (Cunliffe).
Crest:: — A Lion Rampant Arg., its dexter paw on a
Roundle Or. Suspended from a Colar Az. a
greyhound segant Arg.
Motto : — Honestas Est Optima Politia.
Owen. Living in the early part of the eighteenth
century. Had two sons : —
(1) Joseph Owen. Of whom below.
(2) Robert Owen. Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1772.
Joseph Owen. Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1754.
Married Beckett, and had issue: —
(1) Joseph Owen. Of whom below.
(2) Robert Owen.
(3) Samuel Owen.
Three daughters.
Joseph Owen. Engaged in trade in Sheffield and
Glasgow. Died at Crooke's Moor, near Sheffield. Married,
2nd Januai-y, 174G— 7, at Ecclesfield, Co. York, Sarah,
daughter and heir of John Scargill, of Thorpe Hall, near
Sheffield, by Elizabeth Cunliffe, of Wycoller Hall, Lanca-
shire. She was born January, 1726. They had issue,
besides five children who died in infancy : —
(1) Henry Owen Cunliffe, of Wycoller Hall, Lanca-
shire. Assumed the Name and Arms of Cunlifie upon
succeeding to the Wycoller property, 23rd April, 1774.
Bom 1752. Died S.P. 8th November, 1818. Buried in
Colne Parish Church. He married, 10th August, 1775,
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in the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Mary second
daughter of Adam Oldham, of Oldham Street, Man-
chester, Merchant. She was baptised at St. Anne's
Church, Manchester, 9th March, 1756. She died 25th
March, 1851, and was buried in Trinity Church Chelten-
ham.
(2) Joseph Owen. Captain 77th Regiment of Foot.
Killed at the Storming of Seringapatam, 4th May, 1799.
(3) Charles Owen. Born 1765. Of whom below.
(i.) Margaret. Married William Eboral, of Warwick.
(ii.) Ann. Died unmarried.
(iii.) Sarah. Died an infant.
Charles Owen. J. P. for Middlesex. Solicitor, of
Chelsea. Bom 1765. Died 23rd February, 1805. Buried
at Paddington Green Cemetery, London. He married,
first, at St. ]\Iartin'8-in-the-Fields, London, 3rd April, 1784,
Mary Newman. She was born in 1764, and died 17th
August, 1793, and was buried at Paddington Green
Cemetery, London. Charles Owen married, secondly,
at St. Luke's, Chelsea, 3rd September, 1801, Mary
Ann Kettlewell, formerly Creswell. She was born
1774, and died 19th April, 1857. She was buried
in the Cemetery at Cambridge. By his second
wife Charles Owen had only two children: — (1) Francis
Owen. M.A. St. John's College Cambridge. Incumbent
of St. Thomas' Church, Crookes, near Sheffield. Born 7th
June, 1802. Died 13th November, 1854 S.P. Buried in
the Cemetery at Alexandria. The Rev. Francis Owen
married Sarah Pennington, daughter of
Bailey, Esq., a Merchant, of Sheffield. She died
in 1863, having married, secondly, in 1857, the
Rev. John Livesey, M.A., Incumbent of St. Phillip's
Church, Sheffield. (2) Frederick Charles Owen. Bom
12th October, 1803. Died, unmarried, 3rd Febmary,
1825. By his first wife Charles Owen, of Chelsea, had
issue : —
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(1) Thomas Owen. Born 23rd February, 1785. Went
to America, and died young, unmarried.
(2) Charles Cunliite Owen. Captain R.N. Bom 12th
May, 1786. Died 20th February, 1872. Buried at
Avignon, France. He married, 9th January, 1821, Mary
Peckw&ll, only daughter of Sir Henry Blosset, Knight,
Chief Justice of Bengal. She died 3rd May, 1841.
Captain Charles Cunliffe Owen had issue: —
(1) Henry Charles Cunliffe Owen. C.B. Colonel
Royal Engineers. Born 16th October, 1821. Died
7th March. 1867. Buried in the Cemetery,
Plymouth. Colonel H. C. Owen married, at St.
Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, Regent's Park,
31st October, 1855, Agnes, second daughter of Lewis
Cubitt, Esq., of Bedford Square. She married,
secondly, 4th July, 1872, the Rev. H. E. Millington.
Colonel H. C. Owen had issue one son: —
Edward Cunlifte Owen. C.M.G. B.A.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Barrister-at-Law.
Bom Ist January, 1857. Edward Cunliffe
Owen is the present head of the Owen family.
He married, at Trinity Church, Brompton, 18th
April, 1882, his cousin, Emma Pauline Cun-
liife, third daughter of Sir Francis Philip Cun-
liife Owen, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. They have
issue.*
(2) Robert Julius Owen. Bom 7th June, 1823.
A Midshipman Royal Navy. Died, unmarried, on
board H.M.S. Edinburgh, 9th April, 1841.
(3) Sir Francis Philip Cunliife Owen., K.C.B.,
K.C.M.G., C.I.E., Director of the South Kensington
Museum. Born 8th June, 1828. Died 23rd March,
1894. Buried at Kirkley Cemetery, Lowestoft.
Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen married, 29th April, 1854,
•See "The Descendants of the Elder Branch of the Cunliffes ot
Wycoller," by Major-General C. H. Owen, page 59.
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Jenny, Baroness von Reitzenstein, the eldest
daug'hter of Baron Frederick von Reitzenstein,
Colonel Commanding the Royal Prussian Horse
Guards. Lady Owen died 24th October, 1894, and
was buried in the Cemetery at Lowestoft. Sir
Philip Cunliii'e Owen has issue.*
Selina Emma, only daughter of Captain Charles
Cunlifie Owen, H.N. Born ITth March, 1825.
Died, unmarried, 22nd June, 1845. Buried at Pad-
dington Green Cemetery.
(3) Joseph Owen. Merchant, of Copenhagen. Born
15th May, 1789. Died 18G2. He married, in 1815,
Susan,- daughter of George von der Pahlen, of Copen-
hagen. She died 15th November, 1884, aged 90. Joseph
Owen left issue.*
(4) Henry Owen. Solicitor, of Worksop, Notts. Of
whom below.
(5) James Owen. Born 7th August, 1793. Solicitor,
of Bawtry and Liverpool. Died 15th February, 1855.
Buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. He married, at the
Parish Church, Blyth, Notts., 26th January, 1818, Mary,
daughter of Benjamin Blythe, a Merchant, of Birming-
ham. She died in 1872. James Owen left issue.*
Mary Cunliii'e, only daughter of Charles Owen, of
Chelsea. She was adopted heiress of Wycolle-r Hall by
her uncle, Heniy Owen Cunliife. Born 24th June, 1792.
Died, unmarried, 8th December, 1879. Buried at Great
Shelford, near Cambridge.
Henry Owen. Solicitor, of Worksop, Notts. Born 12th
October, 1790. Died IGth March, 1850. Buried at
AVorksop. He married, at Worksop, 13th March, 1815,
Sophia Mary, youngest daughter of Captain Stephen
O'Brien, R.N. She was born 14th August, 1791, and died
* See " The Descendants of the Elder Branch of the Cunliffea of
Wycoller," by Major-General C. H. Owen, for the descendanta of Sir
Francis P. Cunlifie Owen, Joseph Owen, and James Owen.
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11th February, 1845. She i8 buried at Worksop. Henry
Owen had issue : —
(1) Henry Charles Owen. Bom 5th July, 1817.
Died 13th August, 1817. Buried at Worksop.
(2) Henry Stephen Owen. Born 2l8t May, 1819.
Died 14th August, 1819. Buried at Worksop.
(3) Frederick Owen. Solicitor, of Worksop, Notts.
Born 24th April, 1823. Died, unmarried, 26th Novem-
ber, 1852. Buried at Worksop.
(4) Sidney James Owen. Of Christ Church, Oxford.
Of whom below.
(5) Charles Henry Owen. Major-General Royal
Artillery. Of Camberley, Surrey. Born 19th May,
1830. Ho married at St. Dunstan's West, London, 10th
December, 1851, Emily Linzee, eldest daughter of War-
wick Augustus Hunt, Esq., of Burleigh, near Plymouth.
She was born 4th September, 1831. General Owen has
issue : —
(1) Henry O'Brien Owen. Born 13th September,
1854. Colonel Eoyal Artillery. (Retired.) He
married, at Sialkote, India, 16th November, 1886,
Amy eldest daughter of Major-General G. New-
march, R.E. Colonel Henry O'B. Owen has issue
one son : —
Lindsay Cunliife Owen. Bom 15th Se-ptem-
ber, 1887.
(2) Charles Cunliffe Cunliffe-Owen. Born 20th
November, 1863. Took the name of Cunliffe-Owen
by Deed Poll, January, 1905. Major Royal Artil-
lery. He married, first, at Ipswich, 19th October,
1892, Margaret Mary, daughter of John Patterson
Cobbold, Esq., M.P. for Ipswich. She died S.P.,
29th November, 1894. Major Charles Cunlifte-
Owen married, secondly, at St. George's Chapel,
Albermarle Street, 21st December, 1901, Hilda,
second daughter of Mrs. Sidney Everett, of Boston,
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U.S.A., and Shanklin, Isle of Wight. They have
issue one son: —
Sidney Patrick Charles CunlifEe-Owen.
Bom 16th October, 1904.
(3) Frederick Cunliffe Cunliffe-Owen. Bom 27th
November, 1868. Took the name of Cunliffe-Owen
by Deed Poll, January, 1905. Major Royal Artil-
lery. He married, at Bangalore, India, 21st
December, 1893, Ethel Beatrice, daughter of A. J.
R. Bainbridge, Esq., of "Wilstead, Canterbury, late
Bengal Civil Service.
(i.) Emily Mary Linzee. Born 12th December,
1852. She married, at Wymering, Hants., 31st
August, 1874, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Jackson
Hezlet, R.A., of Bovagh, Aghadowey, County Derry.
(ii.) Sophia Agnes. Bom 18th November, 1856.
She married, at St. Peter's R. C. Church and St.
John's Church, Woolwich, 10th August, 1881,
Deputy-Surgeon-General John Sarsfield Comyn,
M.B.
(iii.) Eugenia Ellen. Born 22nd March, 1859.
Married, lOth March, 1897, Captain Alexander
Wighton Inglis, West York Regiment.
(I.) Sophia Mary. Born 20th February, 1816.
She married, 19th Febmary, 1852, George Young,
and died S.P. 7th February, 1892.
(II.) Henrietta Maria. Born 14th July, 1821.
Died 12th September, 1835.
(III.) Mary Isabella. Born 17th March, 1825.
Died 12th May, 1888.
(lY.) Eugenia Margaret. Born 3rd March, 1832.
She married, 3rd September, 1857, Lieut.-Colonel
Arnold More Knight, and died 10th March, 1871,
S.P.
Sidney James Owen. M.A. Barrister-at-Law. Reader
in Indian History, and Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
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Born 30th Deceniber, 1827. Married, at Merton College
Chapel, Oxford, 4th September, 1856, Mary Ellen, eldest
daughter of Henry Sewell, of Newport, Isle of Wight, and
of New Zealand. She was born 31st May, 1835. They
have issue: —
(1) Sidney George Owen. M.A. Student of Christ
Church, Oxford. Born 2nd November, 1858.
(2) Edward Cunlifte Owen. M.A. Head Master of
St. Peter's School, York. In Holy Orders. Bom 5th
February, 1869.
(3) Mountague Charles Owen. Born 12th April, 1872.
(i.) Lucy O'Brien. Bom 11th November, 1860.
(ii.) Henrietta O'Brien. Born 8th December, 1862.
Married, at St. Michael's, Oxford, Frederick Samuel
Boas, M.A., Divisional Inspector in English Language
and Literature to the London County Council.
(iii.) Adelaide O'Brien. Born 3rd July, 1864.
(iv.) Mary Isabel O'Brien. Born 2nd August, 1866.
(v.) Margaret Emily O'Brien. Bom 2nd August,
1866.
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Xlbe Ibanburp ipainil^.
The family of Hanbury were seated at Hanbury,
Worcestershire, from a very remote period. The head of
the family is now Lord Sudeley. Other branches are
represented by Lord Bateman, the Hanburys of Pont-y-
Pool, Co. Monmouth, and the Hanburys of Holfield Grange,
Essex. The names of Samuel Hanbury, of Judd Place,
and of his father, Joseph Hanbury, are, I believe, recorded
in the famil}?^ pedigree, now in the possession of Lord
Sudeley.
Hanbury, living in the 18th century, had two
eons : —
(1) Samuel Hanbury. Of King Street West, London.
Surgeon. Died August, 1828. He married, first, Miss
Ashton, but by her he had no issue. By his second wife,
whose name does not appear, he had issue one
daughter ; —
Phcebe. She married Mr. Smith, of Kidder-
minster, Co. Worcester. Solicitor. Died many
years ago. After the death of Mr. Smith this family
emigrated and settled at Stockholm, Sweden. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith had issue : —
(1) Samuel Hanbury Smith. Physician.
He went to America many years ago.
(2) Thomas Smith.
(3) Ann. Died, unmarried, in the latter
part of 1868.
(2) Joseph Hanbury. Date of decease unknown, but
many years before his brother, Samuel. He married
;5Jary . She died about 1818. They had issue : —
(1) Samuel Hanbury. Of 9, Judd Place, East
Marylebone. Of whom below.
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(2) Josiali Hanbury. Born 1776. Died, un-
married, 1862.
(3) Joha Hanbury. Born 1780. Died, un-
married, 1855.
(i.) Mary. Died in 1819 or 1820.
(ii.) Phoebe. Born c. 1772. Died, unmarried,
1844.
(iii.) Fanny Taylor. Bom c. 1785. Died 1865.
S.P. Having married Samuel Longmore, who died
c. 1845.
(iv.) Esther. Bora 1787. Died 1869. S.P.
Having married William Gardner, who died in
1857.
(v.) Eebecca. Born 1792. Died, unmarried,
1860.
Samuel Hanbury. Born August, 1771. He wa& be-
trothed for many years, during which time he was detained
a prisoner in France in the time of the first Napoleon,
After his marriage he was on the London Stock Exchange,
and lived at 9, Judd Place, East Marylebone, now pulled
down. He died April, 1853, and is buried in Nunhead
Cemetery, London. He married, about 1811, Frances,
third daughter of the Rev. William Sewell, M.A., Rector
of Headley, Hants., and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
For continuation of the pedigree see the " Hanbury
Branch," Page 72.
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Xlbe Bafter jFamil^.
Arms: — Argent, on. a saltire engrailed sable five
escallops of the first, on a chief of the second a
lion passant of the field.
Crest: — A dexter arm embowed mailed argent, hold-
ing in the hand proper an arrow in bend sinister
of the last.
Antony Baker, of Alphington, Devon. Had issue : —
(1) Aaron Baker, of Bowhay, Devon. First President
and Governor of Madras. Baptised 22nd December,
1610. Died 28th October, 1683. He married, first,
about 1643, Elizabeth Brantyngham. She died in
1652, and was buried at sea. He married, secondly,
Anne Brooke, but by her had no issue. By his first
wife Aaron Baker had issue two sons and a daughter : —
(1) Thomas Baker. Of Oriel College, Oxford.
Born 22nd October, 1644. He married, first, 24th
April, 1666, Susanna Blagrave, of Oxford. She was
born in 1648. He married, secondly, 28th July,
1690, Joane- Heron, widow, of Abingdon, Berks.,
but by her had no 'issue. By his first wife Thomas
Baker had issue one son and one daughter : —
(1) George. Bom 11th April, 1668. Buried
30th June following.
Anne. Born 1669. Married 19th Decem-
ber, 1688, Henry Playford, of St. Clement
Danes, Middlesex. He was born in 1659.
(2) Aaron Baker. Born 6th September, 1650.
Died 9th April, 1680. He married, 25th July, 1672,
Mary, daughter of John Rowe, of Ashton, Devon.
She was baptised 4th September, 1656. After Aaron
K [129]
Baker's death she married, 19th September, 1682,
William Babb, of Doddiscomleigh, Devon. Aaron
Baker had issue two daughters : —
(i.) Anne. Born 1st May, 1673. Died Ist
April, 1693, having married Mitchell.
(ii.) Mary. Bom 10th May, 1675.
(i.) Elizabeth. Born 18th September, 1645.
Buried c. 1670, in Alphington Church.
(2) John Baker, Member of the Corporation of Salis-
bury. Of whom below.
(i.) Mary. Who married twice. By her first husband
she had two sons, Aaron and Philip. She married,
secondly, Edward Dally, of Pinhoe, Devon, and by him
had two sons, John and Edward.
John Baker, of Alphington, Devon. Baptised 31st
August, 1614. A Member of the Corporation of Salisbury.
He married twice. By his first wife he had a son, George,
and a daughter, Mellony, who married Skinner.
John Baker married, secondly, Mary , and by her
had issue : —
(1) Stephen Baker.
(2) Aaron Baker. Born 1652. Of whom below.
(i.) Johane. Married Simons.
(ii.) Sarah. Married Mitchell.
(iii.) Jane. Married Sarr.
(iv.) Elizabeth. Died, S.P., 1664, having married
Ambrose Rhodes, of Modbury, Devon. Physician. He
was born in 1640, and died in 1689. He married,
secondly, 1667, Juliana Prestwood, daughter of Thomas
Prestwood, Esq.
Aaron Baker. In Holy Orders. M.A. Wadham College,
Oxford. Bom 1652. Buried, 28th Febmary, 1728. Vicar
of West Alvington, Marlborough, South Milton, and SQuth
Huish, Devon. He marrie-d, c. 1680, Martha, daughter of
the Rev. Joseph Tompson, of Exminster, Devon. She was
bora in 1657. She died 27th May, 1742, and was buried
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"beside her husband, in the Chancel of "West Alvington
Church. They had issue : —
(1) Aaron Baker. Baptised 12th June, 1681. Of
whom below.
(2) George Baker. In Holy Orders. M.A. King's
College, Cambridge. Baptised 12th July, 1687. Died
25th June, 1772. Yicar of Modbury, Archdeacon of
Totnes, Prebendary and Registrar of Exeter. He
married Bridget, daughter of the Right Rev. Stephen
Weston, Bishop of Exeter [1724—1742]. She was bom
in 1701, and died 10th March, 1777. They had issue : —
(1) Sir George Baker, of Modbury and Loventor,
Devon. First Baronet, and of Jermyn Street, Picca-
dilly, Middlesex. Physician-in-Ordinary to George
III. and to Queen Charlotte. M.A. M.D. Fellow
of King's College, Cambridge. F.R.C.P., London.
F.R.S. President of the Royal College of Physicians
of London. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medi-
cine of Paris. Hon. F.R.C.P., Edinburgh. Bap-
tised 8th February, 1722. Created a Baronet 26th
August, 1776. Died 15th June, 1809. Buried in
Church of St. James, Piccadilly. He married
Jane, daughter of Roger Morris, of Netherby, Co.
York. She was born in 1741, and died 30th July,
1813. She was buried in St. James' Church, Picca-
dilly, For descendants see Baronetage.
(2) Aaron Baker. Baptised 22nd September,
1725. B.A. Wadham College, Oxford. Died be-
fore 30th June, 1747.
(3) Thomas Baker. In Holy Orders. Of Loventor,
Devon. D.D. Merton and Exeter Colleges, Oxford.
Rector of Staverton, Vicar of Pinmore, and some-
time Curate of Modbury. Prebendary of Exeter
and of St. Asaph. Baptised 22nd December, 1727.
Died 1803, S.P. He married Marshall, of
Totnes.
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(i.) Martha. Bom 1715. Died 16th June, 1788.
(ii.) Elizabeth. Bom 22nd November, 1716.
She married, in 1740, George Rhodes, grandson of
the above Ambrose Rhodes, of Modbury.
(iii.) Bridget. Born 29th August, 1718.
(iv.) Mellony. Baptised 20th August, 1720.
(v.) Sarah. Baptised 7th August, 1730. Died
4th April, 1760. She married the Rev. William
Hatherly.
(3) John Baker. M.A. Fellow of Wadham College,
Oxford. Baptised 17th September, 1689. Died while
in office as Junior Proctor. Buried at St. Michael's,
Oxford, 29th April, 1719.
(4) Anthony Baker. M.A. Fellow of Wadham Col-
lege, Oxford. Born 11th October, 1696. Died c. 1741.
(i.) Martha. Baptised 4th November, 1684.
(ii.) Mellony. Baptised 7th March, 1691. Married
John Scobell, of Nutcombe, Devon.
(iii.) Elizabeth. Baptised 10th September, 1694.
Aaron Baker. M.A. Wadham College, Oxford. Bap-
tised 12th June, 1081. Barrister-at-Law [Middle Temple,
1707]. Appointed Town Clerk of Plymouth 1725. Buried,
in St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, 14th May, 1750. He
married Mary, daughter of , of Oxford. She was
buried 4th April, 1753. They had issue: —
(1) Aaron Baker. Bora 1st June, 1711. Of whom
below,
(2) John Jiaker. B.D. Corpus Christi College, Ox-
ford. Proctor 1748. Vicar of West Hendred, Berks.
Born 1719. Died S.P. 12th March, 1790.
(i.) Martha. Buried 20th December, 1752.
(ii.) Mellony Ann. Baptised at St. Michael's, Oxford,
29th July, 1713. Buried there 5th November, 1714.
(iii.) Elizabeth. Buried at St. Michael's, Oxford,
17th June, 1716.
Aaron Baker. M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford. Bora
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1st June, 1711. Baptised at St. Micliaers, Oxford, 9th
June following. Vicar of Alternon, Cornwall. Pre-
tendary of Exeter. Buried, 13tli February, 1749, in
Alternon Church. He married Catherine, daughter of
Abraham Gapper, of Balsam House, Wincanton, Somerset.
Serjeant-at-Law. She was born in 1720, and died 13th
December, 1777. She is buried at Wincanton. They had
issue one son : —
Aaron Abraham Baker. D.C.L. Wadham and All
Souls' Colleges, Oxford. Born 1st April, 1750. Died 18th
December, 1814. Yicar of Marksbury, Rector of Barnet,
and Incumbent of Brislington, Somerset; Prebendary of
Wells. J. P. and D.L. for Somerset. He married, first,
Mar}'^, second daughter of Simeon and Mary Bartlett, of
Bristol, niece of John Bartlett, Mayor of Bristol. She was
born 20th January, 1757, and died 20th May, 1786. The
Rev. Aaron Abraham Baker married, secondly, in 1790,
Susannah Hemus, of Brosely, Shropshire, and Ginch,
Somerset, sister of Dr. Hemus, Rector of Padworth, Berks.
She was born April, 1757, and died S.P. 30th August, 1818.
The Rev. Aaron Abraham Baker had issue, by his first
wife : —
(1) Aaron Webb Baker. B.A. Corpus Christi College,
Oxford. Born 20th November, 1780. Died 13th De-
cember, 1805, at Stony Hill, Jamaica. Lieutenant 18th
Royal Irish Regiment.
(2) John Popham Baker. Bom 21st June, 1784. Of
whom below,
(3) Thomas Bartlett Baker. Born 24th May, 1786.
Died 2nd November following.
(i.) Frances Elizabeth. Born 13th September, 1780.
Died 20th April, 1812. She married, 27th December,
1810, Richard Huson, Captain 18th Royal Irish Regi-
ment. They had issue one son.
(ii.) Marianne. Born 15th May, 1782. Died 15th
March, 1871. She married, 13th August, 1810, Major-
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General "William Nedham, Colonel 4th Royal Veteran
Battalion. M.P. for Atlienry in the Irish Parliament.
John Popham Baker. Commander Royal Navy, of the
Retreat, Ham Green, Somerset. Sometime Lieutenant on
" Royal Sovereign " at Trafalgar, flagship of Vice-
Admiral Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood. Born 21st June,
1784. Died 26th April, 1859. He married, first, 11th
July, 1805, Anna, daughter of Beatty, of London-
derry, and sister of Sir William Beatty, Knt., M.D.,
L.R.C.P., Physician-in-Ordinary to William IV. and to
Greenwich Hospital; F.R.S. ; sometime Surgeon to the
" Victory " ; present at the death of Lord Nelson. She
was born 3rd March. 1782, and died . Commander
John Popham Baker married, secondly, 10th January,
1840, Mar^'^ Grace Rudhall, youngest child of Dr. Thomas
Harison, of Lodway, Somerset. She was bom 21st March,
1815, and died 11th February, 1903. Commander John
Popham Baker had issue, by his first wife, one son : —
Frederick Walter Popham Baker, of Sparkeswood,
Kent. In Holy Orders. M.A., Gonville and Caius
College, Cambridge. Ad eundem Oxon. Sometime
Rector of Beaulieu, Hants. Bom 16th May, 1814. Died
1878. He married, first, Lucy, daughter of the Right
Rev. Henry Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland. She
died S.P. 30th March, 1858. The Rev. Frederick Walter
Baker married, secondly, Charlotte Frances, daughter
of Major George Willock, K.L.S., of Lansdowne
Crescent, Bath. They had issue: —
(1) Frederick Coombe Baker, of Sparkeswood,
Kent. In Holy Orders. B.A. Exeter College, Ox-
ford. Born 1861.
(2) Walter George Baker. University College,
Oxford. Born 1862.
(3) George Henry Baker. B.A. Corpus Christi
College, Oxford. Born 1864.
Commander John Popham Baker had issue, by his second
wife : —
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(1) George Arthur Gwynne Baker. Born 16th
October, 1840. Drowned, circa 1860, in Eiver
Amazon.
(2) Harry Baker. Of whom below.
(3) Frank Baker, of Philadelphia, U.S.A. Bom
2nd November, 1846. He married, first, Fannie,
daughter of Dr. Sheppard, of Bath. She died S.P.
He married, secondlj^, Derry, of Plymouth.
(i.) Mary Woodcock. Born 23rd September,
1841. She married, 16th August, 1859, her cousin,
Major-General William Robert Nedham. Colonel
Royal Artillery.
(ii.) Lucy. Born March, 1844. Died c. 1850.
Harry Baker. Naval Store Officer, Admiralty. [Re-
tired.] Born 6th January, 1843. He married, 4th May,
1870, Annie Maria, eldest daughter of James Ward, of
Warden and Minster, Isle of Sheppy. Solicitor. She was
born 23rd July, 1848. They have issue : —
(1) James Baker. Born June, 1872. Died
August, 1872.
(2) Cecil Ward Popham Baker. Born 13th June,
1877.
(3) Harold Ramsey Popham Baker. St. George's
Hospital, London. M.R.C.S., Eng. L.R.C.P.,
London. Late Surgeon S.S. Lake Michigan. Bom
22nd January, 1880.
(i.) Muriel. Born 25th June, 1876. Married,
16th December, 1902, Humphrey Finch Dawson.
Lieutenant Royal Navy. Second son of General
Finch Dawson, Barrister-at-Law. Lieutenant H.
F. Dawson was born 20th May, 1876.
(ii.) Kathleen Annie Mary. Born 27th April,
1882.
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ni>onumental inscriptions.
All Saints' Chuech, Headley, Hants.
In. the Church, under the tower : —
" To the memory of the Reverend "William Sewell,
Clerk, A.M., Hector of this Parish, and Fellow of Queen's
College, Oxford : a man of extensive learning and un-
bounded charity. He was presented to the Rectory of
Headley in the year 1765, and continued to hold it till
the time of his death, in the year 1800, a period of 35
years, the whole of which time he spent in the bosom of
his parishioners, discharging the religious and moral
duties of his profession with unceasing diligence and
most exemplary piety. He died on the 12th day of
October, 1800, in the 80th year of his age. Also to the
memory of Frances, his wife, daughter of Robert Clarke,
Esquire, of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, who, during
a long affliction of pain and illness, afforded an example
of all the virtues which render a Christian truly amiable.
She departed this life on the 4th of April, 1803, aged 62
years.
" Also of John Sewell, the youngest son of the above
William and Frances, who died an infant in the year
1782.
" Also of William, their eldest son, who died in the
Island of Martinique, in the West Indies, in the year
1794, aged 22 years.
" Also of Barnabas Sewell, their third son, a Surgeon
in the service of the Honourable the East India Com-
pany, who died in the East Indies in the year 1805,
aged 26 years."
[136]
St. Maey's Church, Carisbeooke, Isle of Wight.
In the churchyard on the north side of the Church : —
(i.) On a small brass plate on the top of an altar
tomb: — " Here lieth the remains of Mr. Robert Clarke,
who died April 1, 1771, aged 79. And of Lydia, his wife,
who died April 19, 1766, aged 65."
(ii.) On a small brass plate on the top of an altar
tomb: — "Sacred to the memory of William Clarke,
Esqr., who died Sept. 29, 1801, aged 66 years. And of ,
Hannah, his wife, who died Octr. 21, 1795, aged 56
years."
(iii.) On a small brass plate on the top of an altar
tomb : — " Sacred to the memory of Richard Clarke,
Esqre., who died June 19, 1817, aged 81 years. Also of
Lydia Clarke, who died April 9, 1828, in the 90th year
of her age."
(iv.) Carved in the stone on the north side of an altar '
tomb (there are high iron railings round the tomb) : —
" Sacred to the memory of James Clarke, Esqr., of New-
port, who died the Ist of November, 1819, aged 57 years
and 9 months."
(v.) On a small brass plate on the top of an altar
tomb :— " Sacred to the memory of Robert Clarke, Esqr.,
who died the 30th of August, 1825, aged 61 years and
6 months."
(vi.) An upright stone, on which is carved : — " Sacred
to the memory of Lydia Sewell, who died February 6,
1837, aged 67."
(vii.) An upright stone, on which is carved :—" Sacred
to the memory of Elizabeth Sewell, who died Septr.
26, 1811, aged 43. Also of William, son of Samuel and
Frances Haubury, who died October 27, 1812. Aged
3 weeks."
(viii.) A fla! white marble stone, with a cross carved
on the top. Round the stone is carved :—" Sacred to
the memory of Lucinda Marianne, wife of Henry Sewell,
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who died July 28th, 1844, aged 32 years. Also of
Marianne Billingsley, wife, of Robert Burleigh Sewell,
who died July 16th, 1849, aged 34 years."
" Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
The Old Cemetery, Newport, Isle of Wight.
At the south end is a vault, with high iron railings
round it, and at the western end, fastened to the railings,
is an iron plate with this inscription : —
" Sacred to the memory of Thomas Sewell, of New-
port, I. of W., who died at Oxford, June 25th, 1842, and
Jane Edwardes Sewell, his wife, who died at Bonchurch,
May 20th, 1850. Also in memory of the children of the
above Ann Margaret Sewell, who died January 26th,
1805: John George Sewell, who died October 24th,
1822: and Thomas Sewell, who died September 7th,
1826."
[The date of Ann Margaret Sewell's death is wrong;
she died 17th January, 1817.]
The Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Newport.
In the south aisle is a window of two lights ; in the east
light is a figure of David, holding a harp ; above his head
are these words : '' David Rex ; " below the figure, " Create
in me a clean heart, 0 God." In the west light is a figure
of Solomon, holding a sceptre in his right hand and the
Temple in his left; above the head are these words:
" Solomon Rex; " below the figure, " So Solomon built the
house and finished it." Below, on a brass plate is this
inscription : —
" In memory of Thomas Sewell and Jane his wife.
T. S. died July 1, 1842, aged 68. J. S. died May 20,
1848, aged 74."
[Both these dates are incorrect. Thomas Sewell died
25th June, 1842. Jane Sewell died 20th May, 1850.]
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St. Boniface (Old Church), Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.
On a stone in the Churchyard : —
"George Sewell. Died March 4th, 1848. Aged 6
years."
" Of such ia the Kingdom of Heaven,"
St. Boniface (New Church), Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.
(i.) On a white marble cross in the churchyard: —
" He leadeth me beside the still waters."
" Marianne Sewell. Died October 6th, 1861. Aged
17 years."
(ii.) On a stone in the churchyard: — " Eobert Bur-
leigh Sewell. Died March 22nd, 1872. Aged 62. Eliza
Isabella Sewell. Died Nov. 22, 1877."
" Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord, for they
rest from their labours."
" So he giveth his beloved sleep."
(iii.) On a stone in the churchyard : — " Emma Frances
Sewell. Died April 27th, 1897, aged 79."
" Bought with a Price."
(iv.) On a stone in the churchyard: — "Emily Haw-
trey. Died May 11, 1901, aged 57."
" My Peace I give unto you."
The Old Churchyard, Waresley, Hunts.
" Henry Sewell. Born at Newport, in the Isle of
Wight, September 14, 1807. Departed this life at Cam-
bridge, May 14, 1879."
" Blessed are the Peacemakers."
" Elizabeth Sewell, Born at Sholden, in the County
of Kent, February 9, 1819. Departed this life at Wares-
ley, May 29, 1880."
" What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt
know hereafter."
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Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.
Carved on a stone, on the south side of the Chapel : —
" Jane Sewell. Born June 3, 1819. Died July 27,
1890."
" Lord Remember Me."
[The date of her death is incorrect; it should be 28th
July.]
St. Andrew's Church, Blackley, Near Manchester.
On an upright cross : — " Rev. William Sewell, D.D.
Born Jan. 23, 1804. Died Nov. 14, 1874."
" The Lord is my Light and my Salvation."
New College, Oxford.
Over the grave of the late Warden of New College, in
the Cloisters, carved on a stone : — " J. E. Sewell, Custos.
1860—1903."
On a brass in the ante-chapel: — " Non procul hinc
defletvm condidervnt alvmni amici necessarii hvivs
collegi cvstodem dvlectvm Jacobvm Edwards Sewell
S.T.P. qvo moderante domvs e parva magna evasit qvi
miti sapientia pietate probitate rem Wiccamicam avxit
colvit direi;it XLIII amnos cvstodiam gerens at
LXXII annos horvm moenivm incola soliicvdine
non piger Domino serviens. Natus die XXY Decembris
1810. Excessit die XXIX Janvari 1903."
" Et erit ipvs jvstitiae pax et cvltvs Jvstitiae
silentivm et secvritas vsqae in sempiternvm. Is. XXXII.
17 ver."
The following translation is by Sidney George
Owen : — Not far hence the members of his college, his
friends and his intimate acquaintances laid in his grave
the lamented Warden of this College, the beloved James
Edwards Sewell, D.D., under whose rule the institution
from being small became great, who with benevolent
[140]
wisdom, piety, and uprightness increased, watched over,
and directed the prosperity of Wykhamists as Head.
During 72 years he lived within these walls, a diligent
servant of the Lord.
Born December 25, 1810.
Died January 29, 1903.
St. Cuthbert's Church, Bewcastle, Cumberland.
On a stone in the churchyard : — " Erected in memory
of AVilliam Sewel, who died at Sleet Beck, July 2nd,
1835, aged 78 years. Also Deborah his wife, who de-
parted this life December 8, 1839, aged 74 years. Also
of William Sewel, grandson of the above William Sewel,
who died January 16th, 1844, aged 11 years."
[The name is spelt Sewell in the registers.]
Chale Church, Isle of Wight.
" Near this place rest the remains of Richard Burleigh,
Rector of Chale and Brown. Candover, who died August
10th, 1734. Aged 63. And also of Lydia his wife, who
died Nov. 11, 1717. Aged 40."
Brown and Chilton Candover Church, Removed erom
Chilton Candover Old Church.
" In propinquo tumulatur Quod mortale fuit Rev<^
Rich^i Burleigh, A.M. Hujusce Parochiae Rectoris
Desiderium fui Amicis, aliisquis moriens reliquit Ilium
suave comitatis de Benevolentiae Exemplar Quibis
omnes mira quadam dulcedine Sibi devinxit Omnes una
voce (solum quod valeat munus) Superstite dum lugent
agnoscunt E vita excessit Jan^^ die 21^^° A.D. 1798
Aetatis vero suae 36."
[141]
H Xlst of all tbe Sewell Mills prcserveb at tbe
Diocesan IRegistrg, Carlisle, to tbe gear 1800-
[C. Denotes Cumberland. W. Denotes Westmoreland.]
1567
Thomas Sewell
1568
Janet Sewell
1569
Richard Sewell
)i
Thomas Sewell
1572
Thomas Sewell
))
Marion Sewell
1574
Edward Sewell
)i
John Sewell ...
1577
John Sewell ...
1578
Edward Sewell
,,
Leonard Sewell
1579
John Sewell ...
)}
William Sewell
II
John Sewell . . .
1580
Thomas Sewell
II
Isabella Sewell
M
Roger Sewell
II
Roland Sewell
1581
Robert Sewell
11
Janet Sewell
Margaret Sewell
II
John Sewell ...
11
Janet Sewell
Isabell Sewell
1583
Randal Sewell
1684
Robert Sewell
1585
Symon Sewell
„
Alexander Sewell
,,
Agnes Sewell
1587
William Sewell
1588
Robert Sewell
Jane Sewell ...
M
Margaret Sewell
1590
Richard Sewell
1593
Robert Sewell
^^
Thomas Sewell
II
John Sewell...
1596
John Sewell...
. St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle
C.
. Hesket
. c.
. Wetherall (Inventory)..
. c.
. Skelton (Inventory)
. c.
.Carlisle
. c.
.Carlisle
. c.
, Bryskoe...
. c.
, St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle..,
. c.
, Kyrkland
. 0.
. Carlisle ,
. c.
. Carlisle
. c.
Carlisle
, c.
. Carlisle
. c.
Carlisle
, c.
Carlisle ..
, c.
. Carlisle (Inventory) ...
, c.
Hesket
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
St. Lawrence, Appleby
(Inventory)
W.
St, Cuthbert's, Carlisle
(Inventory)
c.
Skelton (Inventory)
c.
Hesket
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
Hesket
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
c.
Hesket
c.
St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle
(Inventory)
c.
Carlisle
c.
Carlisle
c.
Carlisle
c.
Wetherall
c.
Carlisle
c.
[142]
1596
Thomas Sewell
• Carlisle
„
Randal Sewell
. Carlisle (Admon)
1600
(ieorge Sewell
. Kirkland
i>
Robert Sewell
. Carlisle (Inventory) ...
1601
Wilfred Sewell
. Kirkland (Inventory) ...
1602
Bannerby Sewell
. Caldbeck (Inventory) ...
1603
John Sewell
. Bleckhall
,,
Thomas Sewell
. Heskett (Inventory) ...
>i
Joseph Sewell
. Carlisle (Admon.)
,,
Cuthbert Sewell
. Carlisle ...
1605
John Sewell
. Carlisle
1607
Agnes Sewell
. Petterill Crook
»»
Thomas Sewell
. Carlisle
1608
William Sewell
. Caldbeck
1)
William Sewell
. Wetheral
1610
Henry Sewell
.Carlisle
1611
Hugh Sewell
. Skeltou ...
1612
Elizabeth Sewell ..,
. Hesket
1613
John Sewell ...
. Botchergate, Carlisle ...
„
Henrie Sewell
. St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
„
Agnes Sewell
. Culgaith, Kirkland
M
Oliver Sewell
. St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
1614
Thomas Sewell
. Botchergate, Carlisle
(Inventory)
,,
Janet Sewell
.Carlisle
1616
Robert Sewell
. Bleckell
,,
Simon Sewell
. Caldbeck
1617
Edward (the younger) Sewell
Heskett
ji
Edward (the elder) Sewell ..
Heskett (Inventory) ...
1621
William Sewell
. Briscoe ...
1623
Simon Sewell
. Caldbeck
1628
Jane Sewell
. St. Mary's, Carlisle
1631
Thomas Sewell
. Powbank, Dalston
1634
Rowland Sewell
. Carlisle
1635
Henry Sewell
Carlisle
1636
John Sewell
. Botchardby
J,
Ann Sewell ...
. Botchardby
i;
Thomas Sewell
. Briscoe ...
1638
John Sewell ...
. Caldbeck
1639
Henry Sewell
. Culgaith
1641
John Sewell ...
. CaldahiU
[No Records between 1644 and 1661.]
1661
Sewell, Als Robert
Caldergate, St. Mary ...
Moorehouse ...
. Carlisle
1661
Thomas Sewell
. Dalston
John Sewell ...
Loning ...
i>
Pecer Sewell
. Penrith
1663
Thomas Sewell
. Uppiugton, Caldbeck ...
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1663
Hugh Se well
... Welton, Seburgham
,,
Wilfrid Sewell
... Culgaith
1665
Henry Sewell
... Culgaith
1668
Henry Sewell
... Dalston
^j
John Sewell
... Wetheral
1671
Grace Sewell
... Caldbeck
1672
Richard Sewell
... Cumwhitton*
1688
Edward Sewell
... Briscoehill
1689
John Sewell
... St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle...
John Sewell ...
... Fowldoors
1690
Jane Sewell
... Cumwhinton* ...
1693
John Sewell ...
... Dalston
1695
Robert Sewell
... Fooldoors
1704
Robert Sewell
... Fooldoors
1707
Thomas Sewell
... Carleton, St. Cuthberts,
Carlisle
1708
Janet Sewell
... Carleton, St. Cuthbert's
Carlisle
Robert Sewell
... Botchardgate ...
1713
George Sewell
... Kirklinton
1714
Jane Sewell
... Morland
))
Joseph Sewell
... Carleton
1715
John Sewell
... Raughtonmoordike
Thomas Sewell
... Kirkland
1716
Thomas Sewell
... Culgaith
1717
John Sewell
... Oldtowne
1720
John Sewell
... Penrith
»
Mary Sewell
... Bleckhall
1726
Thomas Sewell
... Culgaith
1728
Joseph Sewell
... Unthank
1730
John Sewell
... Caldbeck
1732
Robert Sewell
... Carlisle ...
1731
Richard Sewell
... Bleckell, St. Cuthbert's
Richard Sewell
... Culgaith
1735
Cuthbert Sewell
... Blackell. St. Cuthbert's
Carlisle
1739
Jane Sewell, widow ...
... Carleton, St. Cuthbert's
Carlisle
1740
Robert Sewell
... Alston by, Kirklinton ..
1742
John Sewell
... St. Mary's, Carlisle
Jane Sewell, widow ...
... St. Mary's, Carlisle
1744
Mary Sewell...
... Mungrisdale, Graystock
1748
John Sewell
... Ribton, Bridekirk
1750
Thomas Sewell
... Swindale, Shap
Robert Sewell, sen. . . .
... ('arlisle
1751
Thomas Sewell
... Newlands, St. Cuthbert'
Carlisle
1753
John Sewell, gent. ...
... Penrith
• Adjoii
iing Carlatton.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
w.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
c.
[144]
1757
Samuel Sewell
... Carleton, St. Cuthbert's,
Carlisle
C.
1761
Joseph Sewell
... Spittlehouse.Castlesowerby C.
1762
Robert Sewell
... Culgaith
1768
Anu Sewell, widow ...
... Carleton, St. Cuthbert...
C.
1769
John Sewell
... Cardew, Dalston
c.
1774
Arthur Sewell
... Carlisle
c.
,,
Joseph Sewell
... Dalston...
c.
1778
John Sewell ...
... Fouldoors, St. Cuthbert,
Carlisle
c
1782
Thomas Sewell
... Carlatton
c
1783
Hannah Sewell, widow
... Fotheman, Shap
w
1786
Henry Sewell
...Carlisle
c.
j>
Sarah Sewell, widow
... Great Musgrave
w.
1788
William Sewell
... Swiudale. Shap
w.
1791
Joseph Sewell, sen. ...
... Brisco, St. Cuthbert,
Carlisle
c.
1793
Jonathan Sewell
... Durdar, St. Cuthbert,
Carlisle
c.
»i
Eleanor Sewell, epr....
... Templesowerby
W.
1797
Thomas Sewell, sen...
... Newlands, St. Cuthbert,
Carlisle ... ...
c.
„
George Sewell
... Uppertown, Kirklinton
w.
AdMINISTRATIOiNS.
1729
John Sewell
... Wetheral
c.
1731
John Sewell
... Crackenthorpe ...
w.
1733
Thomas Sewell
... Wetheral
c.
1735
William Sewell
...
1737
Samuel Sewell
... Culgaith
c.
1740
Henry Sewell
... Warnell, Sebergham ...
c.
1742
Henry Sewell
... Broomyknow, Kirklinton
c.
1745
John Sewell
... Raughtorjgill, Hesket ...
c.
1761
Mabel Sewell, widow
... Highlaws, Holmecultram
c.
1773
Joseph Sewell
... Musgrave
w.
1776
William Sewell
... Killgate, Sebergham ...
c.
1784
Benjamin Sewell
... Cumwhinton, Wetheral
c.
Ravenstonbdale Wills, Etc.
1747 Thomas Sewell Ravenstonedale Town
Bond
W.
[145]
Mill of TTbomas Sewell, BleO 1782.
In the Name of God, Amen. I Thomas Sewell of Car-
latton in the County of Cumberland yeoman being in a
weak state of health but of sound and perfect mind memory
and understanding-, praised be God for the same, and call-
ing to mind the mortality of my Body do make this my last
"Will and Testament in manner and form following revok-
ing all former Wills by me made either by word or writing
and this only to be taken for my last Will and Testament
and none other. First I give and bequeath to my son the
Eev<i Wm. Sewell the sum of One Shilling. Also I give
and bequeath to my Grandson John Sewell the sum of Fifty
pounds. Also I give and bequeath to my Granddaughter
Elizabeth Moses the sum of Twenty pounds. Also I give
and bequeath to my Granddaughter Mary Isichol the sum
of Thirty pounds. Also I give and bequeath to my Grand-
daughter Margaret Sewell the sum of Eighty pounds to be
paid to her when she attains the^ age of Twenty one years.
All which former mentioned sums I order and appoint not
to be paid till three years from the day of the date hereof
unless my Executrix and Executor hereafter mentioned
shall think fit and convenient to pay them or any of them
or any part of them. Secund I also give and bequeath to
my Grandson Thomas Sewell the sum of Twenty pounds
to be paid on demand after my decease. And whereas the
Heirs Executors and Administrators of my Son the late
Jacob Sewell deceased may make claim or demand on my
Executors etc for their respective shares or portions of the
Effects of the said Jacob Sewell My further Will and
pleasure is that none of the above named persons shall be
entitled to their respective shares or portions of the Effects
[ 146 ]
of the above named persons above mentioned till tbey shall
give to me or my Executors etc a full reasonable and suffi-
cient acquittance or release of all Rights Claims or De-
mands upon the effects of the said Jacob Sewell. And
lastly All the rest residue and remainder of my personal
estate Goods and all Chatties whatsoever and wheresoever
I do hereby give and bequeath unto my Daughter in Law
Ann wife of Thomas Penrith and my Grandson William
Sewell they paying thereout all my just Debts, the above
Legacies and my Funeral expenses and the remainder to
be divided between them the said Ann Penrith and William
Sewell by equal and even portions And I also nominate
constitute and appoint the said Ann wife of Thoma-s
Penrith and my said Grandson William Sewell joint
Executrix and Executor of this my last Will and Testa-
ment In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this twenty eighth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one.
Thomas Sewell.
(L.S.) Signed sealed published and declared by the
aforesaid Thomas Sewell as and for his last Will and Testa-
ment in the presence of us —
his
John Parker — sworn. Rob* Coing X
mark
Proved Sept>^ 14th, 1782.
At Carlisle.
[147]
Mia of IRobect Clarfte, sen., ot IRewport.
Extracted from the District
Registry of tke Probate Division
of the High Court of Justice at
Winchester.
The Consistorial Court of Winchester.
I Robert Clarke of Newport in the Isle of Wight gentle-
man do make and publish this my last will and Testament
in manner following (that is to say) First I desire that I
may be privately buried as near my much loved wife as
conveniently may be. I give to my sons William Clarke
and Richard Clarke their executors administrators and
assigns the sum of six hundred pounds of lawful money of
Great Britain upon this special Trust and Confidence
nevertheless that they my said Trustees shall and do aa
soon as conveniently may be after my decease place out
and invest the said sum of six hundred pounds in some
public stocks or Fund or upon some private Security or
Securitys in their names and shall and do from time to
time pay all the Interest Profits and Produce of the said
sum of six hundred pounds unto my son in Law the
Reverend Mr John Edwards and his assigns for and during
the term of his natural life And from and after his de-
cease shall and do pay all the Interest profits and produce
thereof unto my daughter Ann Wife of the said John
Edwards and her assigns for and during the Term of her
natural life and from and after the death and decease of
the survivor of them the said John Edwards and Ann his
Wife that they the said William Clarke and Richard
Clarke theix Executors and administrators shall stand
possessed of the said pincipal sum of six hundred pounds
In trust for such child if but one of my said daughter Ann
[148]
Edwards that shall be living at the time of her decease
and if more than one such child of my said daughter Ann
Edwards shall he- living at the time of her decease then In
trust for all and every such children of my said daughter
Ann Edwards equally to be divided between or among
them share and share alike and to be paid to such only
child or to such children respectively when and as soon
as he she or they shall attain his her or their respective
ages' of Twenty one years. And in case no such child of
my said Daughter Ann Edwards shall be living at the
time of her decease I give the said principal sum of six
hundred pounds unto and amongst them my said two sons
William Clarke and Richard Clarke and to my Two daugh-
ters Lydia Clarke and Frances wife of the Eeverend Mr.
William Sewell equally to be divided between them four
share and share alike Also I give to my two sons the said
William Clarke and Richard Clarke their Executors ad-
ministrators and assigns the sum of Five hundred pounds
of like lawful money of Great Britain upon this special
Trust and Confidence nevertheless that they my said Trus-
tees shall and do as soon as conveniently may be after my
decease place out and invest the said sum of Five hundred
Pounds in some public stock or Fund or upon some private
security or securities in their names and shall and do from
time to time pay all the Interest profits aud Produce of the
said sum of Five hundred pounds unto my said son in Law
William Sewell and his assigns for and during the Term
of his natural life and from and after his decease shall do
and pay all the interest profits and Produce thereof unto
my daughter the said Frances SeweU and her assigns for
and during the term of her natural life And from and after
the death and decease of the survivor of them the said
AVilliam Sewell and Frances his wife that they my said
Trustees their executors and administrators shall stand
possessed of the said principal sum of Five hundred pounds
In trust for such child (if but one) of my said daughter
[149]
Frances Sewell as shall be living at the time of her decease
and if more than one such child of my said Daughter
Frances Sewell shall be living at the time of her decease
then In Trust for all and every such children of my said
daughter Frances Sewell equally to be divided between or
among them share and share alike and to be paid to such
only child or to such children respectively when and as
soon as he she or they shall attain his her or their respective
ages of Twenty one years. And in case no such child of
my said daughter Frances Sewell shall be living at the
time of her decease I give the said principal sum of Five
hundred pounds unto and amongst them my said sons
William and Eichard and to my said two daughters Lydia
and Ann wife of the said John Edwards equally to be
divided between them four share and share alike Also I
give and devise all my Estate Eight Title and Interest of
and in all those my several messuages with the Gardens
and appurtenances thereunto belonging situate and being
in Gosport in the county of Southton aforesaid now in
the possession of James Gumm and James Haskoll their
undertenants or assigns unto and to the use of my son
Eichard Clarke his Heirs and assigns for ever Also I give
and bequeath to my said son "William Clarke the sum of
Two hundred pounds of like lawful money Provided
always and my Will is that he my said son William Clarke
shall and do within six calendar months next after my
decease release and convey to my said son Eichard Clarke
and his Heirs All his my said son William's Eight Title
and Interest of and in All those the said messuages with
the appurtenances lying in Gosport aforesaid And also
shall not claim or demand any sum or sums of money for
or on account of the Eents and Profits of the said
Messuages by me at any time heretofore received or to
be received And my Will is that in case my said son
William shall neglect or refuse to convey his Eight and
Interest of and in the same messuages to him my said son
[150]
Richard as aforesaid or shall claim_or demand any of the
Rents or profits thereof that then his said Legacy of Two
hundred pounds shall be forfeited and void. And I do
hereby give and bequeath One hundred pounds part thereof
to my said son Richard his Executors and Administrators
and one hundred pounds residue thereof to my said son
Richard Clarke and my daughter Lydia Clarke their
Executors and Administrators equally between them share
and share alike. Also I give all that my messuage or
Tenement with the Garden and appurtenances thereunto
belonging situate in Castlehold and now in the Possession
of William Nutkins unto and to the use of my said son
Richard Clarke his Heirs and assigns for ever Also I give
to my said son Richard Clarke the sum of Two hundred
pounds of like money. Also I give and bequeath All that
my Leasehold messuage Tenement and Lands called Mill
place with the appurtenances and all my Estate and In-
terest therein unto my said Daughter Lydia Clarke her
Executors and administrators to and for her and their own
use and Benefit absolutely. Also I give to my said
daughter Lydia Clarke the sum of seven hundred pounds
of like money Also I give to each and every
of my grand children that shall be living at the time of
my decease the sum of Twenty five pounds of like money.
I give to my two sons William and Richard All my Law
Books equally between them And as to for and concerning
all the rest residue and remainder of my Goods Chattels
and personal estate whatsoever I give and bequeath the
same unto my said son Richard Clarke and my said
daughter Lydia Clarke equally between them share and
share alike And I do hereby nominate and appoint my
said two sons William and Richard Executors of this my
Will Provided always and my Will is that in case my
personal estate shall fall short and not be sufficient to pay
all my debts and Legacys by reason or means of the Failure
or Insufficiency of any security or securitys upon which
[151]
any of my moneys are or shall be placed out Then I do
will and order that my several money Legatees shall abate
out of their several money Legacies a rateable and pro-
portional part of what shall so fall short and not be suffi-
cient as aforesaid. Provided also and my Will is that my
said Trustees shall not be answerable- or accountable for
any Losses that m(a)y happen of the said Trust moneys or
any })art thereof so as such Losses happen without their
wilful neglect or default nor the one of them for the other
of them but each for himself and his own acts only. And
shall and may in the first place by and out of the Trust
moneys retain and reimburse to themselves all such Loss
Costs Charges and Expenses as they or either of them
shall or may sustain or be put unto for or by reason of the
Execution of this my Will or anything in any wise relating
hereto And I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me
at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I have
to this my last Will and Testament contained in Three
sheets of paper to the two first sheets thereof set my hand
and to the third and last my hand and seal this fifteenth
day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy
one.
Eobt Clarke. (L.S.)
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator
as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of
us three together who in the presence of the Testator did
subscribe our names and each respectively see the other
two subscribe their names as witnesses hereto
T8 Abbatt.
Phil Miller
Eobt Miller.
I desire that the wearing apparell and Rings of my late
Wife may be divided equally among my three Daughters
in such manner as my Executors shall think proper. I
give to my son Richard my three silver Casters To my
daughter Frances my large silver Sauce Boat. To my
[152]
daughter Ana Edwards six large silver spoons. To my
Daughter in Law Hannah Clarke Fifteen Guineas to buy
her a Gold "Watch. To my Daughter Lydia my Silver
Coffee Pott and my two silver salvers. To my son in Law
William Sewell and my son in law John Edwards I
give Twenty pounds apiece to buy them mourning. I do
desire that the above may be taken as part of my Will.
Rob* Clarke
Jan-^y 22, 1771
The 27*1^ Sept. 1771. AVilliam and Richard Clarke
the above named Executors were duly sworn.
[153]
PART III
IRotes on tbe name Sewell.
Now, having put down what I know about our own im-
mediate ancestors, I shall try to record what is known
about those other families in England and America which
bear the name of vSewell, but with which I have been
unable to definitely connect our family.
I am afraid I htive always regarded the professor of
philology as very near akin to the writer of fiction, but
still a paper of this kind must contain some reference to
the various derivations which have been put forth for the
name Sewell.
Sewell, otherwise spelt Shewel or Sewel, is still to be
found in some English dictionaries, and the meaning there
given is a scarecrow. " Anything that is hung up is
called a Sewel. And those are used most commonly to
amaze a Deare, and to make him refuse to passe wher
they are hanged up." Turberville, Booke of Hunting.
(Ed. 1575. Page 98.) And again: "So are those bug-
bears of opinions brought by great clerks into the world
to serve as ' shewels ' to keep them from those faults
whereto else the vanety of the world and weakness of
senses might pull them." — Sir P. Sidney, " Arcadia." III.
William Sewell, the eccentric Eector of Headley, and
my great-great-grandfather, traced his family pedigree,
by means of etymology, up to some great Irish King, and
thence to the sun himself, Sol in Latin, and Sewell in
English, being evidently the same words.
Yet another derivation of Sewell will be found in the
Warden of Radley's (William Sewell) M.S. journal.
" Archbishop Whately, however," he says, " once did me
the honour of giving a different derivation. It was at
the time when I protested against the extravagances to
[157]
which the Oxford Tracts seemed inclining. ' Suillus,' he
said, ' is Latin for a little porker, and Sewell is evidently
so called because he will not go the whole hog,' The pun
is scarcely worthy of so clever a man and an Archbishop,
but it veiy accurately expresses my determination, from
the first, not to be drawn by the Oxford movement one
step beyond the strict line of the Prayer Book."*
Whether Sewell was originally a place name, and from
that place the family took their name, or whether the
place was called after a family of that name, is " one of
those things which no fellow can understand." But
certain it is that in pre-Norman days Saswaldo, Latinised
into Sewallis, held land at Eatendon, in Warwickshire,
and it is also as certain that Sewelle was known as a place
name at quite as early a date. To me the most probable
derivation seems to be taken from the Saxon weald,
a wood, and se, which might be a contraction from south,
to denote south-wood. This theory seems to be substan-
tiated from the fact that in the parish of Harlow, in Essex,
is a manor called Sewells, otherwise written in early
records Waldon, AValdes, AValdons, and wells, and at a
later date Sewals, Sewels and even Weld. It is probable
that this manor may have derived its name from, or given
it to, the family of Sewell, long settled at Great Henney,
in the same county.
Dr. Robinson says that Sasualdo or Saswallo appears to
be identical with Siwald, which would in modern German
be Siegwald, the victor of the forest.
Four places called Sewelle occur in Domesday Book,
one in each of the following counties: Berkshire,
Somerset, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire; and in
Leicestershire is a place called Sawelle, also in ihe Exon
Domesday Book a place called Seuvella occurs, and in
the Winton Domesday Book Sewal occurs as a personal
name.
•This pun has been wrongly attributed to Sidney Smith by Dr.
Henry Robinson, "Oxford Historical Society," Vol. XXII., page 352.
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The name Latinized Sewallis was doubtless Sewall or
Sewald, a not uncommon baptismal appellation in Saxon
times, and not improbably identical with Ceadwall or
Cedwalla. Sewall is the spelling found in America to-day,
but in England, Seweil, sometimes modified into Shewell,
is the prevailing form.
Dugdale, in his " History of Warwickshire," gives an
interesting account of Sewallis or Saswaldo, living at the
time of the Conquest, and whose ancestors had been, for
some generations, settled at Eatington, in Warwickshire.
This Sewallis was ancestor of James of Eatington, who, in
the reign of Henry III., assumed the name of Shirley, and
was ancestor to the Earls Ferrers. Sewallis is still re-
tained as a Christian name in the Shirley family.*
In 1236 William de Seweil was Rector of Blaby, in
Leicestershire;! perhaps he may have belonged to the
Bedfordshire family. Of these the earliest mention I
have is in 1295, when, according to the Chronicle of the
Augustinian Canons at Dunstable, John Seweil proved his
right in his father's name to hunt in the common chase
at Bocwode, It is not necessary for me to give here
all the notices which I have of the Bedfordshire Sewells,
for they will be found elsewhere. Suffice it to say, that
they range from the late thirteenth century down to the
middle of the sixteenth century. Of this family cam©
the John de Seweil who is mentioned by RymerJ as going
into Aquitaine in the Black Prince's following, and whose
monument is still to be seen at Houghton Regis.
Certainly the most famous man who has borne the name
of Seweil, or rather Sewal, for that is the way his name
seems to have been usually spelt, was Sewal de Bovill, who
was Archbishop of York from 1256 to his death, May 10th,
• Dugdale's " History of Warwickshire," Ed. 1656, page 466, and
"Stemmata Shirleiana," Second Edition, 1873.
t Nichols' "Leicester," Vol. IV., Part 1, page 55.
JRymer'8 "Foedera."
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1258* At tlie County Assizes for Shropshire of October,
1292, " Jordan le Pestur and Elota his wife acknowledged
by fine that they had given to Master John de Sewalle a
messuage in Wenlock, whereof was plea of warranty: —
To hold of the Lords of the Fee. John de Sewalle gave
them, three marks."!
A Thomas Sewalle was Sheriff of the shires of Cam-
bridge and Huntingdon in 1375, and again in 1382.(i) And
in 1381 a John Seawale was Sheriff of Essex and Hertford-
shire. His arms are given by Fuller as " S. a chevron be-
twixt three gadbees Arg."(2)
Fuller, in his List of the Gentry of the several counties,
returned by the Commissioners in the twelfth year of King
Henry the Sixth, 1433, gives these names : —
Johannis Sewalle, Berks.(')
Johannis Sewell, Bedf.^'^)
Henrici Sewell, Bedf.^^)
Johannis Sewell, Buck8.<^>
Richardi Sewale, Essex.^'^^
Johannis Sewell, Glouc.<^>
John Sewale was Eector of Buckenham Parva, Norfolk,
from 1404 to 1408.(9>
The Sewells of Great Henny, in Essex, are said to be
descended from a John SeweU, who lived in the time of
King Edward IV., but the pedigree can only be traced
consecutively back as far as 1590.^^°^
• " Lives of the Archbiehope of York," by the Eev. W. H. Dixon,
1863, Vol. I.
t " Antiquities of Shropshire," by the Rev. E. W. Eyton, 1856,
Vol. III., page 261.
(1) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Ed. 1840, Vol. I., page 249.
(2) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 533.
(3) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 138.
(4) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 175.
(5) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 175.
(6) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 212.
(7) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 525.
(8) Fuller's " Worthies of England," Vol. I., page 568.
(9) Blomfield'e " Norfolk," Vol. I., page 553.
(10) Morant'e " History of Essex," 1768, Vol. II., page 273. Wrighf 8
"History of Essex," 1836, Vol. I., page 486.
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From the above notes it will be seen that there was a
family bearing the name Sewallis or Sewell in Warwick-
shire prior to the Norman Conquest, but that they changed
their name to Shirley in the thirteenth century. It will
also be seen that in Bedfordshire there was a family also
named Sewell, who flourished from the thirteenth down
to the sixteenth century. The American Sewells, now
usually spelt Sewall, trace their descent back, without a
break, to Henry Sewall, Mayor of Coventry in 1587 and
1606. Could he have been descended from the Warwick-
shire Sewells, so long settled at Eatington ?
As mentioned above, too, there was a third family of
Sewells, who were seated at Great Henny, in Essex, as
early as the time of King Edward IV., and whose
pedigree can bo traced back, without a break, to the
year 1590. This family seems to have become extinct in
the male line about the middle of the eighteenth century.
In Cumberland the earliest mention I have of the name
is in 1549, when Hugh Sewell became Rector of Caldbeck
and Vicar of St. Lawrence Appleby, and Prebendary of
the first stall at Carlisle.<^) In 1561 this same Hugh
Sewell supplicated at Oxford for the Degree of Doctor of
Divinity.(2) The earliest Sewell will preserved at Carlisle
is dated 1567. The earliest Sewell will preserved at York
is that of John Sewall, of Hull, dated 10th February, 1459.
At Canterbury the earliest is that of John Sewell, of
Wymppeton, Notts., dated 23rd March, 1411.
There was a family of the name of Sewell, or Shewell,
settled at Ferris Court, in the parish of Stroud, Gloucester-
shire, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century.
Monuments to them will be found described in Bigland's
" Gloucestershire "<'> as existing in the church and church-
(1) Nicholson and Burns's " History of Westmoreland and Cumber-
land," 1777, Vol. II., page 308.
(2) Wood's " Fusti Oxonienses," Ed. 1721, Vol. I., page 90.
(3) " Historical Monumental and Genealogical Collections relative
to the County of Gloucester," 1791, Vol. I., page 192.
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yard at Bisley. The earliest Sewell will preserved at
Gloucester is that of John Sewell, of Stroud, dated
1573, but there is one, dated 1558, of Agnes Showle, of
Longford, near Gloucester, which is doubtless the same
name. There are also eight wills of Sewells of Bisley
proved between the years 1582 and 1646.
To come down to more recent times, I give below a list
of some men and women who bore the name of Sewell, and
who have more than a passing claim to be remembered : —
William Sewel, the historian of the Quakers, was born
at Amsterdam in 1654. His paternal grandfather,
William Sewel, a Brownist, of Kidderminster, emigrated
from England to escape religious persecution, and married
a native of Utrecht. He died, at Amsterdam, 13th March,
1720, and an account will be found of him in the " Dic-
tionary of National Biography."
George Sewell, poet and controversialist, is said to have
been descended from the Sewells of Great Henny, in Essex.
He died in 1726, and was buried at Hampstead. A life of
him will be found in the " Dictionary of National
Biography."
Mary Sewell, verse writer, was born 6th April, 1797, and
died 10th June, 1884. She was the wife of Isaac Sewell
youngest son of William Sewell, of Great Yarmouth. A
life of her and of her daughter, Anna Sewell, the authoress
of " Black Beauty," will be found in the " Dictionary of
National Biography."
William Sewell, Principal of the Royal Veterinary
College, London, was born in 1780, of Quaker parents
resident in Essex. He died 8th June, 1853. There is a
life of him in the Supplementary Volume of the " Diction-
ary of National Biography."
Sir John Sewell, knighted 25th May, 1815, was a Fellow
of the Eoyal Society, and Judge of the Vice-Admiralty
Court at Malta. He was the son of Joseph Sewell, of Lime-
house, Middlesex, but I believe his family originally came
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from Cumberland. He was bom in 1766, and died in
1833. I know of no life of him.
Many of the American Sewalls were distinguished in
after life, principally in the legal profession, and full
accounts of them will be found in Appleton's " Cyclopsedia
of American Biography."
Finally, as I am writing these pages in Manchester, I
must not forget to mention the Sewells of James Sewell
and Nephew, Bankers. James Sewell, the founder of the
bank, was the son of the Eev. James Sewell, Vicar of Bid-
dulph, Co. Stafford, but whose family originally came from
Crossfell, in Cumberland. Some account of the Man-
chester Sewells will be found in Leo Grindon's " Man-
chester Banks and Bankers."
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Ube Huns of Sewell
At the College of Arms, in London, there is on record
only one grant to any family or person of the name of
Sewell, that made Gth June, 1667, to Robert Sewell, of
London, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, son of John
Sewell, of Essex. Three entries of this grant are on re-
cord, the arms being: — "Argent on a bend Gules three
martlets of the first." Crest: — "Upon a crown mural
gules a martlet Argent." This Robert Sewell was younger
son of John Sewell, of Great Henny, Essex, and was
Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles I. He
married, in 1664, Jane, daughter of Dr. Bruno Ryves,
Dean of Windsor.
But although this is the only grant of arms to be found
at the Herald's College, yet it is certain that other branches
of the Sewell family bore arms, and different ones to these,
at a far earlier date.
On the tomb of Sir John SeweU, at Houghton Regis, in
Bedfordshire, are carved these arms : — " A chevron be-
tween three butterflies." Sir John Sewell lived at the
latter end of the fourteenth century.
The arms most commonly borne by those of the name of
Sewell are: — " Sable a chevron between three bees volant
arg.," and I should think it is probable that either the
butterflies on Sir John Sewell's tomb are intended for bees,
or, through bad draughtsmanship, the butterflies of the
fourteenth century got at a later date changed into bees.
Although these arms, namely, " Sable a chevron between
three bees volant arg.," are not officially recognised by the
College of Arms, yet they are given to " Sewayll " in an
old ordinary of arms preserved there. And there is no
doubt that these arms were borne by the Sewells long be-
fore the incorporation of the heralds, which only took place
in 1484, for we find them assigned to John Sewale, Sheriff
of Essex and Hertfordshire, 4th Richard II., 1382.(i) With
(1) Fuller's "Worthies of England," Ed. 1840, Vol. I., page 533.
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THE ARMS OF THE vSE WELLS OF THE
ISLE OF WIOHT.
two exceptions, every family I have come across of the
name of Sewell, and who uses arms, use those given above.
The two exceptions are the Essex family, long seated at
Great Henny, to whom, as we have seen above, the heralds
granted another, and quite different, coat in 1667, The
other exception is that of the Sewells of Ferris Court, near
Stroud, Gloucestershire, whose arms seem to have been
" on a bend three owls. "(2)
As regards the crest used, there seems to have been some
variation. That given in the grant of 1667 to Eobert
Sewell, of the Essex family, is " upon a crown mural gules
a martlet Argent." In the old ordinary, mentioned above
as preserved at the College of Arms, no crest is given,
neither is one given by Fuller to John Sewale, Sheriff of
Essex and Hertfordshire.
In Burke's " General Armoury," two crests are assigned
to the Sewells of the Isle of Wight, namely, " A dexter
arm embowed in armour ppr, garnished or, holding an
acorn," or " In a chaplet of roses argent, leaves vert, a
bee volant or." But, as a fact, neither of these crests are
correct, although, like so much of Burke's work, there is
some truth in both of them. As a fact, the senior branch
of the family, so long settled at Newport and in that neigh-
bourhood, use " A dexter arm embowed in armour ppr.
garnished or., holding a beehive ; " while the^ junior branch,
now represented by Mr. Henry Sewell, late of Steephill
Castle, use " In a chaplet of roses argent, leaves vert, a bee
volant of the first." This latter crest is used also by the
American branch of the family, and by Frederic R.
Sewell, Esq., of Brandlingill, Cumberland. The motto
used by the Sewells of the Isle of Wight is : " This arm
protects the industrious ; " but Mr. Henry Sewell, late of
Steephill Castle, uses " In labore quies." The descendants
of Sir Thomas Sewell, Master of the Rolls, use " Haeo
manus animica tryrannis."
(2) Bigland'3 " County of Gloucester," Vol. I., page 195.
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Ube Sewells of Surrey.
Sewell had issue
(1) Robert. Of whom presently.
(2) John Sewell. He had issue a son.
(3) AViUiam (or Willferd) Sewell. He had issue.
(4) Thomas Sewell. He had issue a son.
(i.) Hannah. She had issue one son and one daughter.
(ii.) Jane. She had issue.
Robert Sewell, of Chatham and Tonge, Kent. Bom at
Callgarth (CulgaithP), Cumberland. Buried at Chatham.
Will dated 6th April, 1660. He married Judith ,
and by her had issue : —
(1) John. Of whom presently.
(2) Samuel Sewell.
John Sewell, of London, Merchant. To be buried at
Chatham. Will dated 2nd July, 1692. He married
Abigail , and by her had issue : —
(1) John Sewell.
(2) The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Sewell, Knt. Of
whom presently.
(3) Robert Sewell.
(4) Samuel Sewell.
(i.) Judith.
The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Sewell, Knt., of Ottershaw
Park, SuiTey. M.P. for Harwich 1758—1761. M.P. for
Winchelsea 1761—1768. Appointed Master of the Rolls
4th December, 1764. Knighted 30th November, 1764,
and sworn a member of the Privy Council 12th
December. Died, intestate, 6th March, 1784. Buried
at the Rolls' Chapel.' (See "Diet, of Nat. Biog.,"
Vol. 51.) He married, first, Catherine, elder
daughter of Thomas Heath, of Stansted Mont-
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fichet, Essex. M.P. for Harwich. Slie died 17th
January, 17G9. He married, secondly, 20th March, 1773,
Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Humphrey Sibthorp,
M.D., of Canwick Hall, Lincoln. Fellow of Magdalen
College, and Professor of Botany, Oxford. She was born
27th October, 1743, and died at Twyford Lodge, Sussex,
16th September, 1820. By her Sir Thomas Sewell had an
only daughter, born 4th July, 1774, who died an infant.
By his first wife Sir Thomas Sewell had issue: —
(1) Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, of Ottershaw Park,
Surrey. Of whom presently.
(2) William Luther Sewell, of Twyford Lodge, Mares-
field, Sussex, J. P. One of the Six Clerks in Chancery.
Died, unmarried, at Twyford Lodge, 23rd November,
1832.
(3) Robert Sewell, of Oakend Lodge, Bucks., Barrister-
at-Law. Appointed Attorney-General of Jamaica
February, 1780. Born 1751. Died at Oakend Lodge,
30th April, 1828. He married, and had issue : —
(1) Major-General Robert Sewell, Lieut.-Colonel
89th Foot. A Governor of the East India Company.
Died at Twyford Lodge, 20th October, 1835. He
married, at Madras, 15th May, 1813, Eliza Serena,
second daughter of Sir Francis Workman
Macnaghten, Bart., Judge of the Supreme Court of
Judicature at Madras. She died 3rd May, 1862.
By her he had issue : —
(1) Frederick Sewell. In Holy Orders.
(2) Arthur H. C. Sewell. Captain 47th
Bengal N.I. Married, at Hove, 10th October,
1848, Isabel Jane, eldest daughter of William
Woodward Sadleir, of Cannastown, Meath. He
had issue.
(3) Robert Brownrigg Sewell, Madras Civil
Service. Died at Carlsbad, 5th July, 1840.
(4) Francis Hill Sewell. M.A. Caius Coll.,
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Camb. Perpetual Curate of Lindfield, Sussex.
Bom 1815. Died 9th October, 1862. He
married Julia, daughter of John Dent,, M.P.,
16th July, 1841, at St. George's, Hanover
Square. He died S.P.
(i.) Laetitia Sarah. Only daughter. Died
at Nice, 21st January, 1847.
(2) General Sir William Henry Sewell, K.C.B.
Colonel 79th Foot (Cameronian Highlanders). Died
at Florence 13th March, 1862. He married, in
1831, Georgiana, second daughter of Major-General
Sir John Dalrymple-Hamilton, Bart., of North
Berwick, Haddingtonshire. She died Ist May,
1872. General Sir W. H. Sewell had issue: —
(1) William K. Dalrymple Sewell. Lieuten-
ant Madras Horse Artillery. Born 1833. Died
6th January, 1859.
/- (2) Henry Fane Haylett Sewell. Colonel
Indian Staff Corps. Born 2nd August, J838.
Colonel H. Fane H. Sewell married, and has
issue two sons : —
(1) William George Dalrymple Sewell.
He married, at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Valparaiso, 1st June, 1895, Edith
Maud, daughter of Robert Dalzell, of Val-
paraiso and Iquique, Chili. They have a
son, born at Valparaiso, 24th March,
1896.
(2) Henry Fane Dalrymple Sewell.
Bom 17th May, 1862. Educated at Chel-
tenham College. In Business.
(3) Father Sewell. Priest in the Roman
Catholic Church at Trichinopoly, India. For-
merly in the Army.
(i.) Julian Helen. Married, 30th July, 1863, at
St. Bamabas, Pimlico, the Rev. Euseby Digby
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Cleaver, M.A., Christ Church, Oxford. She
was born in 1848.
(3) Henry Frederick Sewell. Bom 19th December,
1790. Entered the Navy 16th September, 1803.
Lieutenant 10th December, 1810. H© married
Esther, eighth daughter of John Dawson, of Mossley
Hill, near Liverpool, and by her had three sons
and one daugiiter.
(4) George Sewell. M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford.
Born 1755. Eector of Byfleet, Surrey. Died 30th
January, 1801, and buried at Byfleet. He married Mary,
daughter of Sir William Young, Bart., of Delaford,
Bucks. She died at Chetsey, 9th December, 1821.
(i.) A daughter, who married, first, Shelton, of
Doctors' Commons ; secondly, Nehemiah Winter, one of
the Six Clerks in Chancery, from whom she was
separated,
(ii.)
(iii.) Frances Maria. She married, 22nd February,
1773, Matthew Lewis, Deputy-Secretary for War. He
died in Devonshire Place, London, 17th May, 1812. By
whom she had issue: —
(1) William Barrington Lewis. Died young.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis, of Cornwall and
Hordley, Jamaica. M.P. for Hendon, Wilts.
Author of " The Monk," " The Castle Spectre," &c.
Born 9th July, 1775. Died, unmarried, 14th May,
1818.
(i.) Fanny Maria, co-heir of her brother, M, G.
Lewis, who left her " Cornwall." Died 26th May,
1862. She married, 8th April, 1799, Sir Henry
Lushington, second Baronet, of South Hill Park,
Berks. He was born 27th October, 1775. He died
25th January, 1863. They had five sons and a
daughter.
(ii.) Sophia Elizabeth, co-heir of her brother, M.
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G. Lewis, who left her a moiety of Hordley. She
married Colonel John Sheddon, 15th Hussars, of
Eastanton and Efford, Hants. They had three sons
and two daughters.
Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, of Ottershaw PCrk, Surrey.
J.P. Lieutenant-Colonel Surrey Eegiment of Fencibles,
raised 1st May, 1794, and disbanded 1800. Bom 1745.
Died 19th October, 1803. Buried at Chobham, Surrey. He
married, in Albermarle Street, in the Parish of St. George,
Hanover Square, 17th January, 1774, Elizabeth, eldest
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Bermingham, 19th Baron
Athenry, and first and only Earl of Louth. From whom
he was divorced in 1779. She was born c. 1753. She died
13th March, 1838. She married, secondly, Francis
Duffield ; and, thirdly, Joseph Eussell. Thomas Bailey
Heath Sewell had issue: —
(1) Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell. Of
whom presently.
(i.) Elizabeth Blake. Died 1828. She married the
Rev. Francis Hawkins Cole, of Marazion, Cornwall. (He
married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of James Ewing,
by whom he had no issue.) Elizabeth Blake Cole had
issue : —
(1) Francis Sewell Cole, of Childown, Clvertsey,
Surrey. Born 15th October, 1817. Died: at South-
ampton.
(i.) Louisa Cole. Married, in 1841, Luther Wat-
son, of Calgarth, Westmoreland. A grandson of Dr.
Watson, Bishop of Llandaff. Louisa Watson had
four daughters.
Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell, of Stanmore,
Middlesex. Lieutenant 4th Dragoon Guards. Claimed
the Barony of Athenry, 3rd November, 1800. Educated at
Westminster School ; admitted 26th January, 1785. Born
2nd February, 1774. Died 20th March, 1852. Buried at
Harold's Cross, near Dublin. He married, 25th January,
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1796, the Hon. Harriet Beresford, fourth daughter of the
Most Rev. William Beresford, Lord Archbishop of Tuam,
and first Baron Decies. She died 11th June, 1834. Thomas
Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell had issue : —
(1) Thomas Sewell. Only son. Lieutenant 13th
Light Infantry. Died, under age, at Landour, Bengal,
Ist August, 1836.
(i.) Elizabeth. Co-heir. Died 26th January, 1861. She
married, 27th March, 1814, Rev. Solomon Richards, of
Solsborough, Co. Wexford, J. P., Rector of Clone. High
Sheriff of Wexford 1818. He was bom in 1737, and
died 28th February, 1866. He had three sons and three
daughters.
(ii.) Susanna Henrietta, co-heir. She died in 1886.
She married, first, Colonel William Nesbitt Burrowes,
of Dangan Castle, Co. Meath, 17th Lancers. By whom
she had issue. She married, secondly, 9th August, 1847,
George Drummond, 14th Earl of Perth, and sixth Earl
of Melford; Due de Melford in France. He was born
6th May, 1807. The Earl of Perth married, previously,
19th May, 1831, the Baroness Albertine von Rotberg
Rheinweiler, widow of General Comte Rapp, peer of
France. She died 2nd June, 1842. By the marriage
between the Earl of Perth and Susanna Henrietta Ber-
mingham Burrowes there was issue two daughters.
(iii.) Louisa Aramin^ta, co-heir. She died August,
1851. She married, 1st October, 1826, Sir William
Edward Leeson, Genealogist, of the Order of St. Patrick,
Knight, grandson of the first Earl of Milltown. Born
February, 1801. Sir William Edward Leeson married,
secondly, 25th August, 1853, Julia, daughter of Captain
Edwin Richards, R.N., of Ravingdon House, Wells, Co.
Cavan. She died 22nd December, 1879. By his first
wife Sir W. E. Leeson had three sons and three
daughters, and by his second wife he had two sons and a
daughter.
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(iv.) Isabella. Co-heir. Died August, 1836. She
married her cousin, October, 1828, General Marcus
Beresford, Colonel 20th Foot. Grandson of the first
Baron Decies. He was born 28th July, 1800. He died
16th March, 1876. General Beresford marritd, secondly,
22nd January, 1838, Caroline, second daughter of
William Fane. By his first wife Ge^ieral Beresford
had two daughters, and by his second wife a son and a
daughter.
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TLbc Sewells of Bebtorbsbfre. ^
(1) By an Tindated deed in the Pub. Record
Office (B. 1572 in the Cat. of Ancient Deeds)
Ralph, son of Richard de Sewell demises to
Alexander, son of Ralph de Sewell, a rent with
homages, &c., issuing out of lands and tene-
ments in the parish of Hocton, and in the fields
of Hocton and Sewewell. "Witnesses, Thomas
de Linley and others named.
(Date of this deed is the latter part of the 13th
century.)
(2) (B. 3233 in the Cat.) Undated. Grant
by Richard, son of Athelina de Sewelle, to
Alexander, son of Ralph, of a portion of his
castleage in Sewelle. Witnesses, John de
Sewelle, Robt. Faitepiece, and others named.
(Probable date, late 13th century.)
(3) (C. 1504 in Cat. of Anc. Deeds.) Grant
by John, son of Ralph de Sewelle, to Nicholas
Clerk, of Wotthone, of a plot of land in " le
Halleuich " of Dunstable.
(Undated, but late 13th century.)
1295. (4) In 1295, according to the chronicle of the
Augustinian Canons at Dunstable, John Sewell,
in his father's name, proved his right against
Millicent de Montalt to hunt in the common
chase at Bocwode, and only took seisin.
1298. (o) (P.R.O. B323L in Cat. of Anc. Deeds.)
Grant by John, son of Peter de Sewelle, to
Richard le Gardiner, of a messuage, &c., in the
hamlet of Sewell. Dated the Wednesday after
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the day of S. Augustine, the Apostle of the Eng-
lish. 26 E.I.
1308. (6) On December 26, 1308, John le Mareschal
was pardoned for the death of Nicholas, son of
John de Sewelle, at Dunstable.
1329. (7) On February 9, 1329, Alan de^ Sewell,
Chaplain, was presented to the Vicarage of
Houghton Eegis Church, then in the King's
gift, by reason of the violence of the Abbey of
S. Albans. (Close Rolls.)
1332. (8) (P.R.O. C. 1540 in the Cat. of Ano.
Deeds.) Grant by John de Sewelle, of Dun-
stable, to John de Reede, paniter, of the same
place, of lands, well sown with corn, in the field
of Ravensworth, at Depecombe.
Dated at Dunstable the Saturday after S.
Hillary the Bishop. 6. E. III.
1336. (9) On March 12, 1336, Henry de Sewell is
menf^- as being tenant of lands in Houghton
Regis under John Bardolf, of Wyrmegay, who
had granted the rent paid by the said Henry
for his land to AVm. la Zouche, of Hanringworth.
(Query reference.)
(10) The connection of th© John Sewell of the
effigy with the great house of Stafford, as shown
by the Stafford knots round his neck, is fully
demonstrated by every notice I can find of him.
In what way this connection took place, and
apparently it even amounted to close trust and
friendship, I can find nothing to explain. The
feudal lords of the family were, not the Staf-
fords, but the Bardolfs, or the Zouches. In all
the following notices Sewell is mentioned in
connection with the Staffords.
1366. (i.) (Rymer's Foedera) 1366. October 15.
John de Sewell going to Aquitaine in the Black
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Prince's following, in company with Humphrey
and Hugh do Stafford, has tres and protection
for ono year.
1378. (ii.) (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 18th May,
1378.) Hugh Earl of Stafford pays £10 fox
licence to enfeoff certain persons, among whom
is John de Sewell, of several of his manors and
lands, in order that they might re-grant the
same to himself and his wife, Philippa, in tail,
with remainder to his heirs.
1380. (iii.) In a list of " La retinue le Count de
Stafford, Monstrey le tierce joun de Suyll"
(printed in Vol. Xi>., p. 232, of the Wm. Salt
Archaeological Society's Hist. Colic- for
Staffordshire), John and Henry Sewell occur
among the Esquiries. The year is not men-
tioned, but according to Major-General Wrot-
lesley, the author of an article in which the
list is quoted, it should be 1380.
1380. (iv.) In this year " John Sewall," probably
the same person as our Knight, is Sheriff of
Herts.
1385. (v.) John Sewell is a witness (tog'- with
Sir Nicholas Stafford and others) to a charter of
Hugh, E. of Stafford to some Welsh town
which I have unfortunately forgotten. (Printed
in one of the volumes of " Archseologian.")
1389. (vi.) Later on " John de Sewell " was one of
1392. the Executors of the will of Hugh E. of Staf-
ford, in company with Nicholas Stafford, Kt.,
John Fremyngham, and John Welle, clerk. In
this capacity he enters into several lawsuits, the
earliest in 12 R. II. and the latest in 15 R. II.
(both mentioned in the Wm. Salt Society's
Publications, Vol. XV., pp. 9 and 29.) It will
be noticed that Sewell has not the style of
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Kniglit or "chevaler" ia any of the above
records. In 1380 he is expressly placed among
the Esquires. It may be questioned whether he
ever became a Knight, although I should
imagine that his intimacy with the Staffords
could hardly have failed to increase his fortunes
and rank. Moreover, it is, perhaps, unlikely
that so elaborate a monument as that in Hough-
ton Church would have been erected to a simple
Esquire.
By the last date it appears that John Sewell
was living in the year June, 1390, to June, 1391.
I do not know the date of his death. That of
the monument may safely be placed between
1390 and 1400.
1425. (11) In 1425 a Nicholas Sewell was Yicar of
the church of Wing, Co. Bucks.
1443. (12) A list of the Gentry of Beds., compiled
in 1443 (and printed in the " Yisitation of
Beds."), includes John and Henry Sewell, both
of Sewell in Houghton Regis.
1566. In the " Yisitation of Beds.," made in
15G6, in the pedigree of Dyves, it is recorded
that Edmond Dy ve married Maude, sister and heir
of Henry Saywell, of Saywell, who is probably
the Henry Sewell mentioned abovei, or perhaps
his son. The arms of this Henry Sewell, as
quartered by Dyve, are sable, a chevron between
three butterflies or, while the head of the Sewells
seems to have borne the chevron (and generally
the butterflies also) argent instead of or. Con-
sequently I am inclined to think that John and
Henry Sewell were brothers, sons of John de
Sewell of the monument ; that the Henry whose
sister married Edward Dyve, was son of
Henry.
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1451. (13) In a petition presented 1 Henry VII.
(printed Rolls of Parliament, VI., p. 317),
"John Sewell of Beds." is menf^- as being
dead lltli August, 28 Henry VI. (1451.)
The family was still extant in the male line
generations later, for I have seen (I forget
where, I am sorry to say) a notice of a John
Sewell, of Houghton Regis, as a young man
lately come into his property — some time, I
think, during the reign of Elizabeth.
In Vol. IV. of the " Bibliotheca Topographica
Britannica," p. 232, is the following:—" In the
White Hart Inn, at Dunstable, over a chimney-
piece, are two shields of arms, but the colours
are faded. The first bears quarterly, 1, fretty,
a fess. 2, a chevron between three butterflies,
Sewell. 3, a bend between three birds, the
fourth as the first, impaling, quarterly 1, a
chevron ermine, between three martlets, 2,
quarterly Arg. 2 and 3 a fret 0 ; over all a bend
S, charged with three escallops of the first.
Spenser : 3 in a fesse, 3 lions' heads erased
between as many roundles; the fourth as the
first. In the fess point a mullett for
difference." The other shield bears the four last
coats impaling others, but does not bear upon
the Sewells.
The date when the foregoing note was taken
is before 1790, when the book was published.
I hardly suppose the shields are in existence
I 177]
tHT.
"William SeweJ
Rector of Headl<
B. 1721. D. \m
Anne.
1725. D. 1725.
William Sewell.
B 1771. D. 1794,
?dia.
Lye
B. 1769. D. 1837.
Frances.
B. 1773. D. 1865.
: Samuel
Hanbury.
A-
1. — Richard Clark-ge
B. 1803. D. ] "
I I I
1. — Anne Margaret.
B. 1805. D. 1807.
4. — Emma Frances.
^. 1818. B. 1897.
2. — William Sewe
Radl^.
B. 1804. D. 1
3.— Thomas Sewei
.B. 1806. D. 1
2.— Ellen Mary.
B. 1813. Z>."1905.
3.— Elizabeth Missing.
B. 1815.
5. — Jane.
B. 1819.
Z>. 1890.
William Sewet Lee
Rector of Littiing.
Sampford.
B. 1836. Z>. 18j
Robert Sewell.
B. 1845.
-Charles William
Henry Sewell,
B. 1879.
-Repinald Vaughan
Thomas Sewell.
B. 1880.
Emily.
B. 1843-
X". 1901-
The Rev.
Henry
Courtenay
Hawtrey.
3eresford Frederick Dorothy Serena
r Sewell. Alexander Elizabetli.
18S0, Seymour Sewell. B. 1886.
B. 1881.
;.? A'
/7^
THE SEWELLS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
Thomaa Sewell.
Living 1695.
Thomati Sewell,
of Cumrew. D. 1768
B. 1695. V. 1782.
William Sewell, = Frances Clarke,
Rector of Heaxlley. B. 1740. D.
B. 1721. U. 1800.
B. 172f.. D. 1725.
From whom descend the Sewella
of Cumberland, and the Sewells
of Steephill Castle.
Thomas Sewell, of = Jane Edwards.
Newport. B. 1773. D. 1848.
B. 1775. D. 1842. i
abeth.
X.
B. 1773. D. 1865. I Huiibury.
^
Henry Sewell. = Lncindal
B. 1807. "' ■
D. 1879.
Married, secondly,
Elizabeth Kittoe.
Robert Burleigh
. Sewell.
B. 1809. D. 1872.
Married, secondly,
Eliza Isabella
Fenwick.
Marianne i
Billingsley'
Seymour. [
James Edwards
Sewell, Warden
vt>f New College.
B. 1810.
D. 1903.
John George
Sewell.
B. 1812.
D. 1822.
B. 1819. D. 1890.
f •■'
William Sewell,
Rector of Little
Sampford.
B. 1836. D. 1896.
Elizabeth
Gertrude
Vaughan.
HeniT
Sewell.
B. 1840.
= Sara
Letham
Bostock.
^
2. - Eleanor Lucy.
B. 1838.
3. — Marianne.
£.1844. Zl. 1861.
Emily. =f The Rev.
B. 184.')- Henry
IJ. 1901. 1 Courtenay
Hawtrey.
■r
-Charles William 1.— Florence Emily Henry Edward Lonia Hilgrove = Alice L
Henry Sewell, Eleanor. Sewell. I Sewell. Ballard.
B\m. B. 1881.
-Reginald Vaughan 2.— Violet Sybil
Tli.iMias SewelL Clare.
1.— Ada Lucy. ■
B. 18^4. ..
2.— Isabel Annie.
B. 1877. D. 1877.
Cecil Arthur Robert Berestord
Seymour Sewell. Seymour Sewell.
B. 1878. B. 18S0,
\ i
Frederick Dorothy Serena
Alexander Elizabetli.
Seymour Sewell. B. 1886.
B. 1881.
£%■: !,i..-^.. MJsi.
Sn^cx ot IRames ot (Persons.
Abbatt, Thomas, 152.
Abbott, ]\[ary, 113
Adams, Rev. John C, 111.
, Rev. Wilham, 22, 34.
Addington, Lord, 16.
Aikenhead, Archibald, 106.
, Eleanor, 106.
Albany, H.R.H. the Duke of, 46.
Alcuin, 54.
Aldndge, the Misse'i, 31, 33.
Alexander, C. M. D. S., 74.
, James, 74.
, son of Ralph, 175.
Allan, Mr., 71.
, Irene, 71.
Allen, W. H. and Co., 47, 63.
Alsnpp Family, 66
Anglesey, Marquees of, 104.
Appleton's " Cyclopaedia of American
Biography," 163.
Aristoplianes, 26.
Armstrong, W., 13.
Arnold, Dr., 72.
Aschylus, 21.
Ashton, Miss, 127.
, Sir Edward, 102.
, Rev. E1I16, 29.
, Frances, 102.
, John, 103.
Athenry, Baron, 170.
Augustine, Saint, 174.
Aylesbury, Marquess of, 118.
Babb, William, 130.
Badens, Frances, 103.
, Eleanor, 103.
, Sir Henry, 103.
, Nicholas, 104.
Bagot, Bishop, 28.
Bainbridge, A. J. R., 125.
, Ethel B., 125.
Bailey, Sarah P., 121.
Baker, Aaron, 129, 130, 131, 132.
■ , Rev. Aaron, 130, 132.
, Rev. Aaron A., 108, 133.
. , Aaron W., 133.
, Anne, 129, 130.
, Anthony, 128, 132.
, Bridget, 132.
, Cecil W. P., 135.
, Elizabeth, 130, 132.
, Frances E., 133.
, Frank, 135.
, Rev. Frederick C, 134.
, Rev. Frederick W., 134.
Baker, George, 129, 130.
. Archdeacon, George, 131.
, Sir George, 131.
, George A. G., 135.
, George H., 134.
, Dr. Harold R. P., xv., 135.
, Harry, 135.
, James, 135.
, Jane, 130.
, Johane, 130.
, Joliu, 130, 132.
, Rev. John, 132.
, Commander John P., 110, 13:
134.
, Kathleen A. M., 135.
, Lucy, 135.
, Marianne, 108, 133.
, Martha, 132.
, Mary, 130, 132.
, Mary W., 110, 135.
, Mellony, 130, 132.
, Mellony A., 132.
, Muriel, 135.
, Sarah, 130, 132.
, Stephen, 130.
, Thomas, 129.
, Dr. Thomas, 131. • \
, Thomas B., 133.
, Walter G., 134.
Ballard, Alice L. B., 60.
, Edward, 60.
Banbury, Earl of. 104.
Bardolf, John, 174.
Barnham, Benedict, 102.
Barnett, Amy, 109.
, Colonel, 109.
Barrett, Robert, 25.
Bartlett, Mary, 133.
, John, 133.
, Simeon, 133.
Bateman, Lord, 127.
Bath, Emma J., 73.
, James P., 75.
Bath and Welle, Bishop of, 74.
Baxter S. and E., 47.
, W., 18, 23.
Bayley, Sir Edward, 104
Baynes, Rev. Robert H., 44.
Beatty, Anne, 134.
, Sir William, 134.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 51.
Becket, Saint Thomas a, 13.
Beckett, , 120.
Bell and Daldy, 43.
Bell, George, 12, 43.
[179]
INDEX— Continued.
Bertie, Rev. the Hon. H. W., 28.
Beresford, Hon. Harriet, 171.
— ■ , General Marcus, 172.
, William, Baron Decies, 171.
Berminghani, Lady Elizabeth, 170.
, Thomas, Earl ot Louta, 170.
Bickers and Son, 6^.
Bigland'a " Gloucestershire," 161, 165.
Billingsley, John, 115.
, Marianne, 115.
Black Prince, The, 175.
Blackie .vnd rion, 52.
Blackwood, 26.
Blagrave, Suaanne, 129.
Bloomfield, Rev. Arthur, U.
Bloomtield's "Norfolk," 160.
Blosset, Sir Henry, 122.
, Mary P., 122.
Blyth, Benjamin, 123.
, Mary, 125.
Boas, Caroline, 51.
, Frederick S., 51, passim, 126.
, Guy H. S., 51.
, Hermann, 51.
Boase, G. C, 27.
Bohnj, H. G., 18, 19. 22, 26.
Boigne, Benoit de, 48.
Bolton, Lord, 91.
Boatock, Edward R., 44, 59.
, Sara L., 44, 59.
Bouterwek, F., 13.
Bovill, Mrs., 95.
, Captain Edward, 95.
, Edward C, 95.
, Sewal de, 159.
Bowyer, Sir George, 15.
Boydell, Jesse M., 109.
Brabazon, Lady M., 103.
Brackenbury, Rev. E. B., 59.
Brannon, George, 93.
Brantyngham, Elizabeth, 129
Brecon, Dryffin, Prince of, 113.
Brereton, Maud, 103.
, Sir William, 100.
Bristol, Bishop of, 14.
Bromley, Isabel, 100.
, Sir John, 100.
, Wiliam, lOO.
Brooke, Anne, 129.
Brooks, J. A., 43.
Brown, Mary, 105.
. Thomas T., 105.
Bulkeley, Sir Richard, 101.
Burke's" " Family Records," 92.
"General Armoury," 165-
" Landed Gentry," xiii.. bis. xv.
" Visitation of Seato and Arma,"
XV.. xvi.
Burleigh, or Burley, Agnes, 85.
, Ann, 88.
, Antonnie, 83.
•, Captain Barnabas, 85.
, Charles, 87, 88.
, Charlotte, 83.
. Dav.ri, 87.
Burleigh, or Burlev, Edmund, 85.
, Elizabeth, 86, 87.
, Emma, 88.
, Frances, 87, S3.
, Harriet, 88.
, Colonel James, 83, 87.
, James Worsley, 83.
, Jane, 88.
, Sir John, 83.
, Captain John, 84, 85.
, John, 87.
, Lydia, 86, 87, 93, 141.
, Mabell, 85.
, Maria, 68.
, Marvin, 85.
, Mary, 87, 88.
, Rev. Richard, 83, 86, 93, 141.
, Richard, 86, 87, 83.
, Rev. Robert, 86.
, Rev. Thomas, 85.
, Thomas, 86.
, Rev. William, 86.
, Captain William, 85.
, William, 83.
, Lieutenant-General, 84.
Burleya of Bromscroft Castle, 85.
— Carrickfergus, 85.
— Potterne, 84.
Burns, James, 19, 20, 33.
Bussy, D'Anibois, 52.
Butler, Beatrice L., 77.
, Frank A., 77.
Burrowes, Colonel Wilnam N., 171.
Butterworth Henry, 43.
Byam, Mary, 104.
, William, 104.
Cam, John, 115.
, Louisa, 115.
Campbell, Jesse R., 109.
, Major Kenneth, 109.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 74.
Carlyle, Thomas, 25.
Carruthers, Dr. Herbert, 109.
Cassell and Co., 27.
Catullus, 50.
Ceadwall, or Cedwalla, 159.
Chamberlain, G., 13.
Chapman, George, 52.
Charles I., King, 84, 92, 164.
II., King, 85.
Charlotte, Queen, 131.
Chatham. Earl of, 105.
Chester, Bishop of, 73.
Clarenden, Lord, 84, 92.
Clark. Rev. Andrew, 51.
Clarke, Rev. A. E., 53, 54.
, Ann, 94. 97.
and Clarke, 89, 92.
, Elizabeth. 95.
, Frances, 6, 94, 136, 143.
, Hannah, 155.
, Henry, 92.
, James, 89, 92, 93, 95, 137.
, J. and W. T., IL
[ 180]
INDEX— ConfinMd.
Clarke, Lydia, 7, 89, 90, 94, 137, 148
paeeim.
, Marv, 95.
, Richard, 11, 83, 84, 69, 90, 92,
94, 95, 97, 148 passim.
. Robert, 6, 10, 87, 89, 91, 92, 95,
94, 95, 97, 136, 137, 148 paesim.
and Sewell, 9.
, Thomas, 91.
, William, 9, 89, 92, 84, 95, 137,
148 passim.
Clarkes of Avington, 92.
Cleaver, Rev. Euseby D., 169.
Clerk, Nicholas, 173.
Close, ]Mary, 79.
Cloyne, Bishop of, 134.
Cobbold, John P., 124.
, Margaret M., 124.
Cockburn, Lydia, 87, 94.
Coing, Robert, 147.
Cole, Rev. Francis H., 170.
, Francis S., 170.
, Louisa, 170.
Coleire, James, 103.
Coleridge, Lord, 116.
Collingwood, Lord, 134.
Coinyn, Surgeon-General John S., 125.
Concanon, Matthew, 105.
Cooke, H., 11.
Cooke's " Survey of the Isle of Wight,"
93.
Corbet, Sir Andrew, 101.
Cotes, Blanche, 111.
, William, 111.
Coxe, Rev. Octavius, 33.
Coyney, George, 101.
Cranach, or Cranage, Alice de, 99.
, Lawrence, 101.
, William de, 99.
Crichton, Rev. W. J., 25.
Creswell, Mary A., 121.
Crooke, Belinda, 28, 31, 32.
Crowther, Margaret, 80.
Cubitt, Agnes, 122.
, Lewis, 122.
Cunliffe, Arms, 120.
, Elizabeth, 120.
. Henry O., 120, 123.
Cunliffe-Owen, Major Charles, 124.
, Major Frederick, 125.
, Sidney P. C, 125.
Cunlifies of Wycoller, xiii., 122, 123.
Dally, Edward, 130.
, John, 130.
Dalrymple-Hamilton, Georg'ana, 168.
, Major-General Sir John, 168.
Dalzell. Edith JM., 168.
, Robert, 168.
Damaiit, Mr., 61.
Daubenv, Rev. Andrew, 115.
, Mary, 115.
Davis, Elizabeth, 86.
Daweon, Esther, 169.
, General Finch, 135.
Dawson, Lieutenant Humphrey F. D.,
135.
, John, 169.
Deacon, Jane A., 108.
, John T., 108.
Decies, Baron, 171, 172.
Dtnt, John, 168.
, Julia, 168.
, J. M. and Co., 52.
Denisou, Archdeacon, 23.
Derby, Lord, 23.
Derry, , 135.
, Bishop of, 107.
Deveral, Martha, 92.
, Paul, 92.
, Petvonella, 92.
Dewing, Emma, 112.
, Richard, 112.
Dilishit, Pundit, 64.
Dixon, Rev. W. H., 160.
Domett, Alfred, 41.
Doort, Abraham van der, 92.
Downes, E. L., 57.
D'Orleans, Louie, 92.
D'Oyley, Anne, 102.
Draneh, Emily, 71.
Drummond, George, Earl of Perth,
171.
Dryttin, Prince of Brecon, 113.
Drymbenog, Games to, 115.
Dubber, Martha, 106.
■ , John, 106.
Duffield, Francis, 170.
Dugdale's "History of Warwickshire,"
159.
Duplex, Frangois J., 48.
Dyve, Edmond, 176.
Earle, Jane, 103.
, Colonel William. lOS.
Eatington, James of, 159.
Earwaker's " History of Sandbach,"
XV., 99.
Eboral, William, 121.
Edward III., King, 99.
Edwards, Ann, 97, 93, 143 paseim.
, Charles. 96.
, Elizabeth, 96.
, James, 28.
, James W., 95, 97, 93.
, Jane, 7, 10, 97.
, John, 96, 97.
, Rev. John, 7, 10, 94, 96, 97, ,148
passim.
, John M., 97.
, Margaret, 96.
, Mary, 96.
Eldridge, R., 61.
Eliot, Rev. Edward, 13.
Elliot, Sir Walter, 64.
Ellis, Charles R., 105.
, George, 104, 105.
, John, 105.
, Major John, 105.
Eltues, John, 96.
[181 ]
INDEX— CofUifiued.
Elwyn, Rev. W. H., 42, 112.
Erskine, Thomas, 102.
Etitcourt, Hirbottle, 0, 61.
Evans, Mrs. Arthur 'a " Letters of Rat-
cliffe and Jamea," 6.
Everett, Hilda, 124.
, Mra. Sidney, 124.
Ewing, Elizabetli, 170.
, James, 170.
Exeter, Bishop of, 57, 131.
Evre and Spottiswoode, 35, 63.
Eyton, Rev. R. W., 160.
Faiteplace, Robert, 175.
Fane, Carohne, 172.
, William, 172.
Fenwick, Rev. Collingwood F., 28, 62.
, Eliza I., 28, 62.
Ferrers, Earls of, 159.
Fisher, Deborah, 75, 76.
Fitzgerald, James G., 41.
Forrester, Arthur, 77.
, Jane, 77.
, IMargaret, 77.
, IMary A., 77.
, Robert, 77.
, Tamer, 77.
Fortescue, Roger, 118.
Fortescues, The, of Fallapit, 118.
Foster, Joseph's " Alumni Oxonien-
sea," xiv., xv., 4.
, Joseph's " Oxford Men and
their Colleges," 31.
Fox, Sir William, 41.
Francis, 5.
Eraser, James, Bishop of Manchester,
16.
Fremyngham, John, 175.
Froude, James A., 14.
Fuller's "Worthies," 160, 164, 165.
Gabell, Dr., 13.
Gapper, Abraham, 108, 133.
, Catherine, 133.
Gardiner, Richard le, 173.
Gardner, William, 128.
Geary, Rev. Peter, 10.
George III., King, 131.
Gibbs, Rev. Joseph, 113.
Gilpin, William, 90.
Gladstone. W. E., 25.
Godley. B. Courtenay, 44.
Goss, Elizabeth. 112.
Gottbury, Dr., 79.
Graham, . 76.
Green. M., 13.
Grey, Earl. 19.
Grindon, Leo's, " Manchester Banks
and Bankers," 163.
Gumm, James. 150.
Gunner and Wilson, 9.
Gurnej', F. G., xvi.
Hall, Charles. 114.
Hampson, Oliver, 106.
Hampson, Olivia, 106.
Hanbury, Ada T., 74.
, Bartholomew G.. 74.
, Charles de W., 73.
, Clement A., 74.
, Edith "J., 74.
, Ellen M. G., 73.
, Emma B., 74.
, Emma G. E., 73
, Emily F. J., 73.
, Esther, 128.
, Fanny T., 128.
, Frances, 5, 137.
, Frances C, 74.
. Frajices E. B., 74.
, Gertrude M., 74.
—, James A. S., xv., 73.
, John, 128.
, Jo«sepli, 72, 127.
, Josiah, 128.
, Katherine M., 75.
, Mary, 127, 128.
, Phoebe, 127, 123.
, Rebecca, 128.
, Samuel, 7, 72, 127, 128, 137.
, Dr. Samuel, 127.
, Thomas J., 72.
, William, 72, 137.
, Rev. William F. J., 75.
Hanburvs of Holfield Grange, 127.
of Pont-y-Pool, 127.
Harbottle Estcourt and Co., 9.
Harison. Mary G. R., 134.
, Dr. Thomas, 134.
Hartop, Mary, 103.
. John, 103.
Harvey, Harriet, xiv.
Haskell, James, 150.
Hatherly, Rev. William, 132.
Hawtrev, Edward, 71.
, Emily, 139.
, Florence, xiii., 69.
, Gilbert H. C, 70.
, Henry C, 71.
, Rev. Henry C, 62, 69.
, Joan, 70.
, Rev. John, 69.
, ]\Iargaret E. C, 70.
, Rafe C, 71.
, Ralph O., 71.
, Seymour H. C, 70.
, Ursula, 70.
, Valentine C, 71.
, Wilfred R. J.. 70.
, Winifrid E. D., 71.
Hays, E. R. C, 66.
Hearn, Mr., 9, 40, 61.
Heath, Catherine, 166.
, D. C. and Co., 52.
, Thomas, 166.
Heathcote, Rev. G. W., ?8.
. Rev. W. B., 15, 29.
Hemus. Dr., 153.
, Susannah, 133.
Heron, Joane, 129.
[ 182]
INDEX— Continued.
Hextall, Joan, 100.
, William, 100.
Hezlet, Lieut. -Colonel Richard J., 125.
Hickrf, Vere, 106.
Hillary, Saint, 174.
Hills and Saunders, 23, 30.
Hodgson, Elizabeth, 86.
Holme, Dr. George, 6.
Holme's " History of the Indian
Mutiny," 48.
Holmes, The, 91.
Holt-White, Rashleigh, 6
Home, Alexander, 87.
Homer, 26.
Hope, Agnes, 101.
Horace, 22, 26.
Houlston and Sona, 44.
Howard, E. H., 57.
Hubbard, Egerton, Lord Addington, 16.
Huddlestone, Frederick, 116.
, Katherine F., 116.
Hunt, Emily L., 124.
, Warwick A , 124.
Huson, Captain Richard, 133.
Huxley, George, 102.
Hyde, Anne, 92.
Inglia, Captain Alexander W., 125.
, Sir Robert, 18.
Ireland, Sir Henry H., 105.
Jacob and Johnson, 42, 61.
James II., King, 92.
Jane, Queen, 117.
Jeune, Bishop, 54.
Johnson, Elizabeth, 113.
Jolliffe, Hannah, 92, 94.
Jones's " History of Brecon," xiii., 113.
Juvenal, 50.
Kelly, Earl of, 102.
Kettlewell, Mary A., 121.
Key, William, 92.
Keys, E., 64.
Kilmorey, Earl of, 102.
Kilmorey, Viscount, 102, 105.
Kip, Rev. W. I., 21.
Kitchin, Dean, 46.
Kitson, Caroline F., 109.
, Edward B., 109.
Kittoe, Capfain Edward, 28, 42, 112.
, Edward D., 112.
, Rev. Edward H., xv., 112.
, Elizabeth, 28, 42, 112.
, Mary A., 112.
, Una St. Mary, 112.
Knight, Lieut. -Colonel Arnold M., 125.
and Son, 62.
Knollya, Dorothy, 104.
, Francis. 104.
. Richard, 104.
Kyd, Thomas, 52.
Lack, Edward J, 107.
, Elizabeth, 107.
Lack, Henry, 107.
, Olivia, 107.
Lacy, Jane, 102.
, John, 102.
Laisne, Adele, 108.
, Constantine J., 108.
Lally, Count, 48.
Lawford, Amy A., 116.
, Henry B., 116.
Lawrence and BuUen, 50.
Layman, Marian, 73.
Leeson, Sir William E., 17L
Leigh, Catherine, 6.
, John, 6.
Lerouse, Ernest, 64.
Lewis, Fanny M., 169.
, Matthew, 169.
, Matthew G., 169.
, " Monk," 169.
, Sophia E., 169.
— , William B., 169.
Linley, Thomas de, 173.
Lindsley, Maigaret, 78.
Livesey, Rev. John, 121.
Lloyd, Bitshop, 116.
— , Elizabeth, 116.
Lock, , 87.
, Elizabeth, 107.
Lodge's " Peerage," 117.
Longden, Emma. 110.
, Thomas H., 110.
Longmans, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37, 38, 62, 70.
Longmore, Samuel, 128.
Louis XIV., King, 37.
Louth, Earl of, 170.
Lushington, Sir Henry, 169.
Lyttleton, Lord, 43.
IMacmillan, 36, 37, 43, 50.
IMainwaring, Agnes, 100.
, John, 100.
, Margaret, 100.
, Randle, 100.
Manchester, Bishop of, 16.
Manning and Bray's " Hietory of
Surrey," 85.
Mareschal, John le, 174.
Marshall, , 131.
, Georgiana C, 73.
, Jeremiah C, 73.
]\Iarwyn, . 85
TMaPters, Joseph, 34.
IMcLeane, Miss, 51.
MeWatters, Dr. 110.
ISleath, Earl of, 103.
Medley, 38.
Melford, Duke of, 17L
, Earl of, 171.
Merrv, Dr. Walter W., 51.
Methuen, 50.
Michlet, M., 46.
Middleton, Charles, 103.
, Sir Thomas, 103.
l\riller, Phil., 152.
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Miller, Robert, 152.
Millington, Rev. H. E., 122.
Milltown, Earl of, 171.
Milton, 51.
Missing Mrs., 33.
Mitchell, Anne, 130.
, Sarah, 130.
Moberly, Rev. Henry E., 29.
Modiford, Mary, 104-.
, Sir Thomas, 104.
Monck, Emelia, 113.
, John, 113.
Montalt, Milicent de, 173.
Morant, Edward, 106.
, Mary, 106.
, John, 106.
Morant's " History of Essex," xvi.
Morris, Jane, 131.
, Roger, 131.
Moses, , 75.
, Elizabeth, 146.
Mozley, Rev. Thomas, " Reminis-
cences," 14, 27.
Murray, John, 20, 21, 26.
Murray, , 52.
Myddleton, Charlee, 104.
Napoleon the Great, 128.
Nayudu, W. S. K., 65.
Nedham, Needham, Nedeham, or de
Nedeham.
, Agnes, 99, 100, 101.
, Alfred George, 109.
, Colonel Alfred G., 108, 109.
, Alice M., 111.
, Anne, 101, 102, 104.
, Annie, 108.
, Arthur, 103.
• , Blanche L. M., 111.
, Charles D., 109.
, Charles F., 109.
, Lieut.-General Charles, 109.
, Captain Charles S., 110, 111.
, Dorothy, 102.
, Edith O., 111.
, Edward Mark, 110.
, Edward Montgomerie, 109.
, Edward W., 105.
, Eleanor, 103.
, Eleanor E., 110.
, Eleanor P., 110.
, Elizabeth, 103.
, Elizabeth G., 105.
, Emma B., 110.
, Frances, 103.
, Francis, 103, 107.
, Captam Francis, 107.
, George, 104. 105, 106, 108.
, George P., 108.
, Gertrude, 110.
, Hampson, 106.
, Render, 105.
, Henry, 105, 107, 108.
, Henry B., 108.
, Henry H., 110.
Nedham, Needham, Nedeham, or de
Nedeham.
, Henry W., 110.
, Hugh, 100.
, Iris E. B., 111.
, Jane, 101, 103, 104.
, Jesse M., 109.
, Joane, 101.
, John, 99, 101, 107.
, Sir John, 100.
. Lorna A. L., 111.
, Lucinda F., 107.
, Lucinda M., 28, 31, 42, 110.
, Lucy E., 111.
, Margaret, 101.
, Margery, 100.
, Maud, 101, 103, 111.
• , Mary, 101, 103, 111.
, Minnie A. L., 109.
, Nicholas, 103.
, Olivia, 107.
, Richard, 99, 105.
, Robert, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104,
105, 106, 107, 110.
, Sir Robert, 100. 102, 103.
, Robert B., 109.
, Roger, 99.
, Ruth, 108.
, Shirle, 111.
, Shirley, 105.
, Thomas, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103.
, Walter, 99.
, Willia.m, 99, 100, 105, 106.
. Major-General William, 28, 42,
108 passim, 134.
• , William A., 109.
, William D., 106.
, William F. L., 110.
, Rev. William F. L., 110.
, :Major-General William R., xv.,
103, 110, 135.
, William R. de N., 111.
, William T., 107.
Nedhams of Thornsett, 99.
Nelson, Lord. 134.
Newman, Cicely, 113.
, Mary, 121.
Newmarch, Amy, 124.
, Major-General G., 124.
Newtnn, Marcellus, 113.
Niehol, , 75.
, Mary, 75, 146.
Niohol'e " Leicester," 159.
" Topographer and Genealo-
gist," 83.
Nicholson and Burns' " History of
Westmoreland and Cumberland,"
3, 161.
Nicholson, E. W. B., 48.
Nisbet, James and Co., 51.
Noble and Sewell, 78.
Norris, , 9.
Novello, Ewer, and Co., 32.
Nutkins, William, 151.
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INDEX-^Con/inued.
O'Brien, Captain Stephen, 123.
, Sophia Mary, 123.
Oglander, Sir John's, " Memoire," 85.
Oldham, Adam, 121.
, Mary, 121.
Onelow, Thomas, 103.
Ormerod's " History of Cheshire," xv.
Ousby, Deborah, 77.
, Elizabeth, 77.
, Isaac, 77.
, Mary A., 78.
, Mary E., 77.
, Robert. 77.
, William, 77.
Ovid, 49, 50.
Owen, Adelaide O'B., 53, 126.
, Ann, 121.
, Charles, 121, 123.
, Captain Charles C, 122.
, Major-General Charles H., xiii.,
XV., 122, 123, 124.
, Edward C, 122.
, Rev. Edward C, 53 passim, 126.
, Emma P. C, 122.
, Emily M., 125.
, Eugenia E., 125.
, Eugenia M., 125.
, Rev. Francis, 121.
, Sir Francis Philip C, 122, 123.
, Frederick, 124.
, Frederick C, 121.
, Henrietta M., 125.
, Henrietta O'B., 51, 126.
, Henry, 45, 123 pa*isim.
, Henry C. 124.
, Colonel Henry C. C, 122.
, Colonel Henry O'B., 124.
, Henry S., 124.
, .Tames, 1?3
. JGc>eph, 120, 123.
, Captain Joseph, 121.
, Lady, 123.
, Lindsiy C, 124.
, Lucy O'B., 50, 126.
, Margaret, 121.
, Margaret E. O'B., 53, 126.
, Mary L, 125.
, Mary I. O'B., 53, 126.
, Mary C, 123.
Mountagae C, 51, 54 passim,
Robert, 120.
Robert J., 122.
Samuel, 120.
Sarah, 121.
Selina E., 123.
Sidney G., 48 passim, 126.
Sidney J., 43, 45 passim, 124,
126.
125.
, Sophia A., 125.
, Sophia M., 125.
. Thomas, 122.
Oxford, Bishop of, 16, 28, 116.
Pahlen, George Von der, 123.
Pahlen, Susan Von der, 123.
Pakington, Sir John, 102.
Palmer, Sir Thomas, 13.
Panton, Elizabeth, 112.
, H. J. and Co., 112.
Parker, John, 147.
Parkers, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 30, 35, 43.
47.
Peel, Sir Robert, 18.
Pennant, Thomas, 90.
Penrith, Ann, 147.
, Thomas, 75, 147.
Perowne, Bishop, 54.
Pepys, Anthony, 23.
Pestur, Elota de, 160.
, Jordan le, 160.
Phillimore, J. S., 50.
Phillips, Simpson, and Co., 34.
, Sir Tliomas's " Visitatio Comi-
tatue Wiltoniae," 84.
, Sir Thomas's " Hampshire
Visitations," 84, 92.
Pilate, 22.
Pitt, Catherine, 105.
, Harriet, 105.
, Robert, 105.
, William, 105.
Plato, 17, 19.
Playford, Henry, 129.
Pochin, Charles N., 111.
Pomfret, Earl of, 105.
Pope, The, 13.
, Charles E., 111.
Powell, Robert, 102.
Prestwood, Juliana, 130.
, Thomas, 150.
Protector, The, 117.
Pusey, Dr., 19.
Queen, The, as Empress of India, 47.
Raikes, Rev. T. D.'s " History of Rad-
ley," xiv., 16, 27.
Ramsay, J. Hamilton, 114.
Rankin, Catherine M., 67.
Rapp, General Count, 171.
" Ratcliffe and James, Letters of," 6.
Reede, John de, 174.
Reekes, Elizabeth, 88.
Reeve, Emily, 114.
, John, 114.
Reitzenstein, Frederick, Baron von,
123.
, Jenny, Baroness von, 123.
Rhodes, Dr. Ambrose, 130, 132.
, George, 132.
Richards, Dr., 40.
, Captain Edvvin, 171.
, Julia, 17L
, Owen, 12.
, Rev. Solomon, 171.
Richardson, Dr. Ralph, 116.
Rivingtons, 18, 19, 20, 25, 37.
Roberts, Maude, 70.
Robertson, Bishop, 57.
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INDEX^Con^i/iued.
Robinson, Dr., 158.
, Catherine, 102.
, Dr. Henry, 158.
, John, 102.
Roe and Blackiord, 93.
Rotbery, Baroness Albertine de, 171.
Routledge, Deborah, 76.
, Elizabeth, 76.
, Jane, 76.
John, 76.
, Tamer, 76.
Thomas, 76.
William, 76.
, , 76.
Rowe, John, 129.
, J. H., 74.
, IMary, 129.
, Rev. T. B., 74.
Rowley, W. J., 24.
Russell, John, — .
, Lord John, 23.
, Joseph, 170.
Ryle, Bishop, 57.
Rymei's " Foedera," 159, 174.
Ryvea, Dr. Brune, 164.
, Jane, 164.
Sadlier, Isabel J., 167.
, William W., 167.
Salisbury, Profesoor'a, " Family Re-
cords," xvi.
, Sir Robert, 103.
Salt, Wm., " Archseological Society,"
175.
Saswaldo, 158.
Sarr, Jane, 130.
Savage, Dorothy, 99.
, :Margaret, 101.
, Sir John, 99, 100.
, Sir Richard, 101.
Saywell (see Sewell).
Scargill, John, 120.
, Sarah, 120.
Schram, Dr., 64.
Scobell, John, 132.
Seaford, Baron, 105.
Seeley and Co., 54.
Sewailis, 159, 161.
Sewell, Sewelle, Sewewell, Sewal,
Sawall, or Saywell.
, Abigail, 166.
, Ada, 58, 59.
, Agnes, 142, 143.
, Alan de, 174.
, Alexander, 142, 173.
, Alice M. M., 80.
, Ann, 76, 143, 145.
, Ann M.. 10.
, Anna, 162
, Anne, 8.
, Anne M., 27, 138.
— , Annie, 76.
, Athelina, 173.
, Arthur, 78, 145.
, Rev. Arthur, 16, 32, 62, 66 passim.
Sewell, Sewelle, Sewewell, Sewal,
Sawall, or Saywell.
, Captain Arthur H. C, 167.
, Arthur V. VV., 80.
, Banner by, 143.
, Barnabaa, 4, 7, 156.
, Beatrice N., 80.
, Benjamin, 145.
, de BoviU, Archbishop of York.
, Charles E., 78.
, Rev. Charles W. H., 57.
, Cecil A. S., 67.
, Cuthbert, 143, 144.
, Deborah, 141.
, Dorothy S. E., 68.
, Edward, 142, 143, 144.
, Eleanor, 145.
, Eleanor L., 44.
, Eliza Isabella, 139.
, Elizabeth, 4, 7, 10, 75, 76, 79,
137, 139, 143, 171.
, Elizabeth A., 80.
, Elizabeth B., 170.
, Elizabeth M., xiv., bis. 4, 10,22.
31, 32 passim, 44, 90.
, Ellen M., xiv., 10, 31, 38.
, Emma, 10, 76.
, Emma F., 38, 139.
, Emily, 62, 69.
, Esther, 78.
, Father, 168.
, Florence E. E., 57.
, Frances, 7, 72, 128, 149 passim.
, Frances M., 169.
, Rev. Francis H., 167.
, Rev. Frederick, 167.
, Frederick A. S., 68.
, Frederick K., 165.
, George, 44, 139, 143, 144, 145, 162.
, Rev. George, 169.
, Grace, 144.
, Hannah, 145, 166.
, Harry P., 80.
, Helen E., 60.
, Henrie, 143.
, Henry, of New Zealand, xiv.,
XV., 9, 27, 40 passim, 56, 61, 110, 112,
126, 137, 139.
, Henry, of the I.C.S., 44, 58
passim.
, Henry, 78, 79, 80, 143, 144, 145,
160, 161, 165, 174, 175, 176.
, Henry E., 58, 59.
, Henry b\, Lieutenant, 169.
-, Henry F. D., 168.
, Colonel Henry F. H., 168.
, Horace H., 80.
, Rev. Hugh, 3, 161.
, Hugh, 143, 144.
, Isaac, 162.
, Isabella, 142, 172.
, Isabel A., 60.
. Jacob, xiii., 4, 8, 75, 76, 78, 79,
146, 147.
, Jamets, 163.
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INDEX— Coft/imied.
Sewell, Sewelle^ Sewewell, Sewal,
Savvall, or Saywell.
, Rev. James, 163.
, Dr. James Edwards, 10, 28
paissim, 39, 45, 140.
. James and Nephew, 163.
* Jamea Thomais, 79.
, Jane, 78, 140, 142, 143, 144, 166.
, Jane E., 78.
, Jane Edwardes, 133.
, Janet, 142, 143, 144.
, Janetta, 10, 39.
, John, 4, 7, 75, 76, 136, 142, 143,
144, 145, 146, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164,
165, 166, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177.
, Sir Jolin, 162, 164.
, John George, 10, 31, 138.
, Jonathan, 145.
, Joseph, 143, 144, 145, 162.
. Judith, 166.
, Julian H., 168.
, Laetitia !S., 168.
, Leonard, 142.
. Louis H., 58, 60.
, Louisa A., 171.
, Lucinda Marianne, 137.
, Lvdia, 7, 137.
, Mabel, 145.
, Margaret, 75, 80, 142, 146.
, Marianne, 44, 139.
, Marianne B., 138.
, Marion, 44, 142.
, Mary, 75, 77, 144, 162.
, Mary E., 43, 45, 126.
, Maude, 176.
, als .Mooreliouse, 143.
, Nicholas de, 174, 176
, Oliver, 143.
, Peggy, 75.
, Peter, 143, 173.
, Ralph de, 173.
, Randal, 142, 143.
, Reginald V. T., 57.
, Richard, 142, 144, 160, 173.
^, Dr. Richard Clarke, xv., 10, 11
passim.
, Robert, of the I.C.S., 62 pasaim,
70.
, Major-General Robert, 167.
, Robert Burleigh, 9, 10, 28, 61
passim, 66, 69, 116, 138, 139.
, Robert B., 167.
, Robert B. S., 67.
, Robert. 142, 143, 144, 145, 164,
165, 166, 167.
, Roger, 142.
. Rowland, 142, 143.
, Samuel, 145, 166.
, Sarah, 145.
, Simon, 143.
, Susanna H., 171.
, Symon, 142.
, Tamer, 77.
, Thomas, of Cumrew, 3 pOiSsim,
75, 145, 146 pasaim.
Sewell, Sevvelle, Sewewell, Sewal,
Sawall, or Saywell.
, Thomas, of Newport, 6, 7, 9
passim, 40, 61, 93, 97, 98, 138.
, Thomas, 3, 10, 27, 75, 76, 78, 79,
138, 14S, 143, 144, 145, 146, 160, 171.
, Sir Thomas, xv., xvi., 165, 166,
167.
, Thomas B. D. H., 170.
, Lieut. -Colonel Thomas B. H.,
167, 170.
, Violet S. C, 57.
, Wilfred, 143, 144.
, Rev. William, of Headley, 3
passim, 9, 72, 75, 94, 128, 136, 146, 148,
153, 157.
, Dr. Wiliam, of Radley, xiv., xv.,
4, 6, 10, 15 passim, 32, 33, 34, 37, 45,
66, 89, 140, 157.
, Rev. William, of Little Samp-
ford, xiii., XV., 43, 56 passim, 114.
, William, 4, 7, 75, 76, 78, 79, 136,
141, 142, 143, 145, 147, 159, 162, 166.
, William G. D., 168.
, General Sir Wni. H., 168.
, William L., 167.
, W. R. D., 168.
Sewells of Great Henny, 160, 161, 165.
of Eerris Court, 161, 165.
Seymour, Arthur, 116.
, Emily, 116.
, George A., 115.
, George P., 115, 118.
, Rev. George T., 28, 62, 115.
, Harriet, 116.
, Lord Henry, 117.
, IMajor Henry C, 115.
, Rev. Henry ¥., xv., 116, 117.
, Herbert, 116.
, Queen Jane, 117.
, Jane F., 116.
, Sir John, 117.
, John B., 115.
, Louisa, 116.
, Marianne B., 28, 31, 62, 116.
, Thomas Lord Seymour, of
Sudley, 117.
Shakepere, 51.
Sheddon, Colonel John, 170.
Shelton, , 169.
Sheppard, Dr., 135.
, Fannie, 135.
Showle, Asnes, 162.
Shirley, Elizabeth, 104.
, Thomas, 104.
, William, 104.
Shrewsbury, Earl of, 101.
Shrimpton, 49.
Sibthorp, Mary Elizabeth, 167.
, Dr. Humphrey, 167.
Sidney, Sir Philip's " Arcadia," 157.
Simeon, Rev. Charles.
Simons, Johane, 130.
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 32.
Singleton, Rev. R. C, 15.
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I'^DEX—Conh'nued.
Siwald, 159.
Sivaji, 47.
Skinuer, Alexandrina A. H., 106.
, Frances, 109.
, Captain Frederick N., 108, 109.
, Mellony, 130.
, Captain William C, 108, 109.
Slatter, Henry, 12.
Smith, Mr., 127.
, Ann, 127.
, Dorothy, 102.
, Humphrey, 102.
. , Ur. Samuel H., 127.
, Sidney, 158.
, Stephen T.,.55.
, Thoniae, 127.
, Walter, 37.
Somerset, Duke of, 117.
Souleby, Lucy H. M., 38.
Spenser Arms, 177.
Spiertj, Benjamin, 51.
Spy, 31.
Stafford Family, 174.
, Count de, 175.
, Sir Edwaid W., 41.
, Hugh de, 175.
, Hugh Earl of, 175.
Humphrey de, 175.
, Sir Nicholas, 175.
, Phillipa, Countess of, 175.
Stanley, Right Hon. E. G., 19.
Starkey, John, 100.
Stevens, William, 24.
Steventon, Richard, 101.
Stewart, J. A. Shaw, xv.
St. Maur, Roger de, 117.
Strode, George, 108.
, Lucinda, 103.
Strachey, Sir John, 48.
Sudeloy, Lord, 127.
Sumner, Bishop, 28.
Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co., 64.
Talbot, Anne, 101.
, Sir John, 101.
Talboys, D. A., 17, 18, 19.
Taylor, G. W., 70.
, Bishop Jeremy, 34, 36.
, Rev. T. W. A., 48.
Telford, Deborah, 77.
. Jacob, 76.
, James. 76.
, Jane, 77.
, Thomas, 77.
, William, 76.
Tennyson, Lord, 115.
Thonipson, i\lary., 96.
Thomson, Simon, 79.
Tompson, Rev. Joseph, 130.
, Martha, 130.
Trotter's " History of India," 48.
Tuam, Archbishop of, 171.
Tuckwell, Rev. Wm.'s " RtminiiS-
cenoea," 27.
Tuberville's " Book of Hunting," 157.
Vauehan, Amelia, 114.
, Blanche, 114.
, Blyth, 114.
. Catherine, 113.
, Cecil, 114.
, Charles, 113, 114.
, Rev. Charles, 4+, 56, 113.
, Elizabeth G., 114.
Ellen, 113.
: Ennly, 113.
, Gertrude, 44, 56.
, Henry, 113.
, Rev. Henry, 113.
, Sir Roger, 113.
, Sybil E., 114.
, Walter, 114.
— , W'llliam, 113.
Venablcs, Sir Thornafi, 101.
Vernon, Sir Robert, 103
Virgil, 21, 50.
Wake, Mr., 9, 61.
Walter, John, 96.
Walton, . 79.
Ward, Annie M., 135.
, James, 135.
. W. G., 12.
Warden and Minster, 135.
Waring, Henry F., 62, 67.
, Mary L., 62, 67.
Warwick, Countees of, 13
Was,sall, Albert, 23.
Watkin, Absalom, 55.
, Absalom and Son, 55.
, Alfred, 55.
, Sir Edward, 55.
Watson, Bishop, 170.
. Luther, 170.
Weber, Albrecht, 65, 70.
Weguelin, J. R., 50.
W^eld, Sir A., 41.
W^elle, John, 175.
Wellesley, Marquess of, 47.
Wellington, Bishop of, 45.
, Duke of, 11, 25, 47.
West, Rev. H. T. T., 24.
Weston. Bridget, 131.
, Bishop Steplien, 131.
Whatelv, Archbishop, 157.
White, "Gilbert, 6.
Whitehead, Mr. 45.
, Dr. J. L., 71.
. J. M., 71.
Whittingham, Thomas, 100.
William I., King, 117, ]18,
, IV., King, 12, 134
Williams, Dr., 29.
Willock, Charles F., 134.
, Major George, 134.
Wilmott, Anne, 102.
Wil^son, Edward, 43.
Winchester, Bishop of, 14, 28.
Winter, Nemiah, 169.
Wit'ts, Emma L., 72.
, Richaid P., 72.
INDEX— Continued.
Wolfe, Lieut. -Colonel R. T., 85.
Wood, Anthony a, 30.
Wood's "Fasti Oxonienses," 161.
Worceeter, Bishop of, 66.
Woodward, Bishop Henry, 154-.
, Lucy, 134.
Workmau-Macnaghten, Eliza S., 167.
, Sir Francis, 167.
Worsfield, Jane, 103.
, John, 103.
Worsley, David, 86, 87, 91.
, Janiee, 88.
, Lord, 43.
, Mary, 86, 87.
, Sir Richard's " History of the
Isle of Wight," 83, 84, 90.
, Thomaa, 85.
Wright's " History of Essex," xvi.
Wrottesley, Major-General, 175.
Wynward, Colonel, 41.
Yarborough, Lord, 9, 43.
Yonge, Miss Charlotte, 33, 36, 37.
York, Sewal de Bovill, Archbiahop of,
159.
Young, George, 125.
, Helenus, 109.
, Mary, 169.
Sir William, 169.
Zouche, William la, 174.
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